[1] It was announced in 2024 that owing to ill-health he would step-down from his position.
[3] At The Open University he was partly responsible for moving 4000+ teaching staff onto permanent contracts [4] and soon after he initiated the institute's first use of 'fire and rehire' of Associate Lecturers [5] After graduating with a degree in geography from Durham University, Blackman started his career as a community worker in Belfast, before completing a PhD in urban sociology.
[6] He was the deputy dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Oxford Brookes University, and also the dean of social sciences and at Teesside University.
He was a founding member of the Community Technical Aid and the Oxford Dementia Centre.
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