Stella Cottrell

Who is Stella Cottrell?

Stella Cottrell is the Director for Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, UK. Prior to her current position, she was Director for Lifelong Learning at the University of Luton and before that worked for ten years in educational development at the University of East London. Throughout her career she has maintained an interest in supporting students from diverse backgrounds, such as those with dyslexia and mature, international and disabled students.

Since publishing the first edition of The Study Skills Handbook in 1999, Stella Cottrell has authored a number of study skills textbooks as part of the Palgrave Study Skills series, published by Palgrave Macmillan. In the June 2011 edition of Education Bookseller, Victor Glynn characterised Cottrell's books as "concise, clearly laid out and covering a wide range of subjects".