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Bob Jeffrey is a writer focused on the survival of the Village Pub in the UK. His major publication in this area is a case study of four pubs carried out over 2-3 years, ‘The English Village Pub: Survival Stories’ and ‘The Village Pub Today: continuity, change and the life of the publican’. Both available on Amazon and in all good bookshops as well as directly from his website that is collecting more survival stories. He is also an active CAMRA member. In his working life he was is co-founder of the Ethnography and Education journal and edited it from 2008-2012 and is still on the board. He co-organised an annual ethnography conference in Oxford for ten years as well co-editing a book series from 2007-2018 www.ethnographyandeducation.org. He researched from 1992-2011 the work of primary teachers with Professor Peter Woods and Professor Geoff Troman. They focused on the opportunity for creative teaching and the effects of the reforms of the 1990s in England on this form of pedagogy and teacher identities. He has published extensively including a great many methodology articles focused on an ethnographic approach including a focus on cross cultural approaches. His latest book focuses on Ethnographic Writing.