The senior researcher at the University of East Anglia's Schoolof Education and LifelongLearning interviewed a number of authors, artists and scientists in her exploration of the effects of boredom.
He has been Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in International Studies and Teacher Education at the Schoolof Culture and LifelongLearning since September 2000.
The scheme, which is based on an American concept, was proposed by Islington's lifelonglearning manager Chris Jude, who left school herself at the age of 13.