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 Dr. Graeme Atherton is Executive Director of the Aimhigher London West Central and North (WECAN) Partnership. After reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Trinity College, Oxford he completed a doctorate looking at the progression of working class adults to education at the University of Liverpool. Following a period as a Lecturer in Sociology he was Associate Dean Widening Participation at Liverpool Hope University.from 2001 to 2004. Since 2005 he has been working in Aimhigher in London. Aimhigher is the national government funded programme in England which aims to support progression to higher education amongst young people. The WECAN partnership is a consortium of over 130 schools, 16 universities and 16 Further Education Colleges.
Dr. Atherton is also an active researcher in the field of widening participation to higher education and is also Executive Director of the Educational Access Research Network (EARN). He has completed projects for the Department of Children, Schools and Families, the Higher Education Funding Council of England, the British Academy, the Learning & Skills Council and the Society for Educational Studies and spoke at over 40 conferences on progression to Higher Education issues.
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