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Personal data

Year of Birth	TAA Member No	Title	Forenames:	Surname:
1959	1956	Mrs	Linda	BLUNT

Record of posts and assignments

Year	Job Title	Organisation	Country	Responsibilities
Sept 1990 – June 2010	Senior Lecturer in International Horticulture –	Writtle College, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex	UK	Teaching a range of Further and Higher Education courses from Diploma, BSc and Masters courses to include tropical and international horticulture, plant propagation, fruit and vegetable production, plant science, plant identification and amenity horticulture.
2006 -10 (3 year prog)	Delphe Link co-ordinator	DFID funded via British Council Writtle College / IAAS Nepal	Nepal	Application process, management of link and all communications, organising staff exchanges – mainly focus on animal science/research staff development.
2001 -05 (3 year prog)	Delphe Link co-ordinator	DFID funded via British Council Writtle College / IAAS Nepal	Nepal	Application process, management of link and all communications, organising staff exchanges development of programme mainly Post Graduate.
1998 -2001 (3 year prog)	Delphe Link co-ordinator	DFID funded via British Council Writtle College / IAAS Nepal	Nepal	Initiation of link via contact and visit to IAAS Nepal , Application process, management of link and all communications, organising programme within horticulture-staff exchanges
1997, 2000,	Visiting lecturer within HE links programme	Egerton University	Kenya	Course development within horticulture through staff exchange programme.
2009		ISHS conference Nairobi	Kenya	Attended conference and visits to growers
2006	Student recruitment	Writtle College	India	Attended British Council recruitment fairs and Ag/Hort Universities
various	Lecturer in Horticulture	Writtle College	India, Sri Lanka, PNG, Australia, Thailand, NZ, etc	Note, other visits made within Europe for student visits, Erasmus staff exchange and personal interest visits relating to horticulture globally

Skills, expertise and qualifications


Principal Discipline	Horticulture Training/Education
Subsidiary fields	Cocoa, floriculture, fruit and vegetable, gender in development, participatory development, project preparation/appraisal, training.
Higher education	2004 - MSc Development Management, Open University 1992 - Certificate in Education, Anglia University 1989 - Master of Horticulture, Royal Horticulture Society
Countries worked in	Germany, Nepal, Netherlands, Switzerland, USA.
Languages	English, German
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