Graham Attwell has over twenty years experience of working as a practitioner, manager and researcher in education. He has worked as a trainer on government sponsored schemes for the unemployed, as a development officer for the Welsh Joint Education Committee, as a senior manager for Gwent Tertiary College and as a researcher for the University of Bremen. He set up Pontydysgu, a Wales based independent research organisation in 1999. His major research interests include the: training of teachers and trainers; development and implementation of e-Portfolios; use of social software for learning; personal learning environments, ontologies and knowledge maturation; occupational identities, career counseling and lifelong and life wide learning.