Dr Jeff Bridgford is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London.

He was the founding Director of the European Trade Union College (ETUCO), the education and training wing of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). ETUCO created a community of trade union educators, developed a European methodology for trade union education and delivered hundreds of European seminars for trade union officers and representatives. Later, he represented the ETUC on EU consultative bodies, notably the Advisory Group of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).

More recently he has been working as a consultant, primarily for the Bureau for Workers’ Activities and the Skills and Employability Branch of the International Labour Organization.