Roger White

After completing a Chemistry degree at the University of York, Roger worked as a school teacher, youth worker, university lecturer, and finally Chief Executive of an innovative curriculum development and examinations organization called ASDAN.

Roger received a Creative Writing MA from Lancaster University (2010), and was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of England in 2011, as well as an OBE for services to education.

As adviser to Seed International, a Beijing based company, Roger has visited schools in China, and attended international conferences in Beijing, Suzhou, Ningbo, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

Roger is the author of many educational books, including In and Out of School (1978 With Dave Brockington), Absent with Cause (1980), Tales out of School (1983), Curriculum Innovation (1997), The School of Tomorrow (2000), and The ASDAN Story (2010), plus a regular newspaper column since 2010. Degrees of Separation is his first published novel.

Roger is married, with three grown-up children, and lives and works in Bristol.