Dr David Guile is Reader in the Faculty of Policy and Society, Institute of Education, University of London, Course Leader MA Lifelong Learning, and a founding member of the Education and Social Science Research Council Research Centre (ESRC), Learning and Life-chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES). He specialises in professional, vocational and workplace learning, and has directed or co-directed research projects investigating different aspects of these issues on behalf of the ESRC, Employment Development, the European Union (TSER Framework Four, ADAPT, EQUAL) and CEDEFOP.

David has just completed two projects for the ESRC/LLAKES Centre that have analysed innovative modes of apprenticeship in Media Production and learning in Small and Medium Size Enterprises, and is currently directing a project on behalf of the Commercial Education Trust, London Chamber of Industry and Commerce, which is looking at internship in the Finance Industry and the Creative and Cultural Sector in London. David is co-editor with Professor David Livingstone, University of Toronto, of the Sense Publishers Series Education and the Knowledge Economy, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Education and Work, the Journal Vocations and Learning: Studies in Professional and Vocational Learning and the journal Medical Education. His book The Learning Challenge of the Knowledge Economy was published by Sense in 2010.