{"id":173,"date":"2012-06-28T15:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjb.co.uk\/wp\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2019-09-02T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:50:28","slug":"who-are-we-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pjb.co.uk\/?page_id=173","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">About Us<\/span><\/h1>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Peter-Bates1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pjb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Peter-Bates1.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Bates\" width=\"84\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">pjb Associates is led by Senior Partner &#8211; Peter Bates &#8211; who brings together associates for specific projects as a when required &#8211; to find innovative ways of doing things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">For more than twenty-nine years, Peter Bates has run a small consultancy and a sustainable business development company &#8211; pjb Associates &#8211; that focuses three main areas of activity:-<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discover.pjb.co.uk\"><span style=\"color: #e84315;\">Personalised local Transport and Mobility as a Service<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e84315;\"><a style=\"color: #e84315;\" href=\"http:\/\/sustain.pjb.co.uk\">Circular Economy<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e84315;\"><a style=\"color: #e84315;\" href=\"http:\/\/energy.pjb.co.uk\">Home Energy Efficiency Solutions<\/a>\u00a0:-<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Home Energy Reviews<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Retrofit Assessment and Co-ordination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">New Ways of financing home energy efficiency and utilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Smart Home Energy Monitoring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Ensuring Quality throughout the Customer Journey<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He has also been involved in :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e84315;\">Personalisation and Video-based solutions for e-commerce<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learning.pjb.co.uk\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I<\/span><span style=\"color: #e84315;\">nnovative Ways of learning<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">e-learning,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">m-learning (mobile Learning)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">t-learning (TV based interactive and personalised TV)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Learning Analytics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/consult.pjb.co.uk\">New ways of engaging people in 21st century public consultation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Innovation, creativity and lateral thinking are the common themes and transferable skills that run through all these activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">In 2011 he also founded and was a director of what has become a not-for-profit social enterprise \u201cThe 80percent Company\u201d (latterly known as The 80percent Hub) that helps communities to save energy and reduce carbon emissions through economically-sustainable smart-living. These actively are now run as part of pjb Associates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Drawing upon experience through projects he ran through pjb Associates, he was a Director of Internet Television Productions Ltd and also a Director of its sister company ITP Vision Ltd. Both of which focused on the development of Personalised and Internet TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Peter\u2019s work has involved analysing, monitoring and evaluating developments concerning managerial and technological issues related to current and future developments in networked learning. This has resulted in successfully managing and completing many projects and reports for the European Parliament, European Commission, UNESCO and other small and large commercial companies and national agencies. He has also worked on many research, development, implementation, dissemination projects as well as managing small and medium sized projects simultaneously. This has involved travelling and working in various parts of Europe, USA, Brazil and Central Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">He has also spent fifteen years teaching in secondary and further education and in the advisory service in various parts of England and Wales. He has taught on Master\u2019s and other post graduate courses in England and Portugal. He was a cabinet governor (like board of Directors) at Ely College, a secondary school in Cambridgeshire, UK with more than 1200 students and a budget of more than \u00a36.5m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">He has a MSc in Training awarded by the University of Leicester, UK (1994) achieved through distance learning and has a Certificate of Education (qualified Teacher status) awarded by the University of Liverpool, UK (1975).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">He also has a second Master\u2019s degree in \u201cManagement in the Network Economy\u201d (MINE) (2005) an international course taught in English at the Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Department of Economics, Piacenza, Italy, in conjunction with the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) of the University of California at Berkeley. 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