Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn (born 27 December 1946) is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside. He graduated from Leeds Trinity University in 1970 with a degree in Education.

He has published five volumes of memoir, collections of poetry and a number of books about education. He has a particular interest in children's literature and literacy.

Career Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now: a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer President of the School Library Association for 2006–2009 a consultant for the Open University Honorary Fellow of York St John University Doctor of Letters of the University of Leicester Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside.