Tom Schuller is chair of the Prisoner Learning Alliance. His professional life has been mainly in adult education, as Dean of Continuing Education at Birkbeck and before that as professor of lifelong learning at the University of Edinburgh. He recently stepped down after 10 years as chair of the Governing Board of the Working Men’s College in London. Tom’s latest book - The Paula Principle: how and why women work below their competence level - was published in 2017.