Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside. He graduated from Leeds Trinity University in 1970 with a degree in Education.
He has published five volumes of memoir, collections of poetry and a number of books about education. He has a particular interest in children's literature and literacy.

Career

Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now:

a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer
President of the School Library Association for 2006–2009
a consultant for the Open University
Honorary Fellow of York St John University
Doctor of Letters of the University of Leicester
Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside.

Dales series

Phinn is probably best known for his memoirs, many of which he has read as audiobooks:

The Other Side of the Dale
Over Hill and Dale
Head Over Heels in the Dales
Up and Down in the Dales
''The Heart of the Dales''

Associated books

''A Wayne in a Manger''

Others

All These Lonely People
Out of the Woods but Not Over the Hill
The Little Village School
Trouble at the Little Village School
The School Inspector Calls!
A Lesson in Love
Secrets at the Little Village School
Road to the Dales – The story of a Yorkshire Lad – a memoir of his early childhood

Television and radio appearances

Honours

In 2004 Gervase Phinn received "The Speaker of the Year Award" from the Association of Speakers' Clubs. Up and Down in the Dales, won the Customer Choice Award at the Spoken Book Awards.
In 2005 the highest academic award of Sheffield Hallam University, Doctor of the University was conferred upon him by the Chancellor, Professor Lord Winston. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the English Speaking Board.