Critical Education Policy Researcher
This book was published by Policy Press in 2023. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/a-political-sociology-of-education-policy A full account of the book is in another part of the webpage.
On the 21st November 2024 the award was made at the annual Fellows Dinner. https://soc-for-ed-studies.org.uk/prizes-grants-and-applications/annual-book-prizes/
Here I am receiving the award from Professor Stephen Parker (right), and with my husband Barry Gunter (left).
A picture of me with the award.
This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education.
The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. Rather than thinking about 'freedom from precarious times and precarity' they consider 'freedom from within' and how the sovereignty and autonomy of the individual to think and speak within the public realm might be retained, if not reclaimed. In the precarious present and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work?
Each of the contributors have been invited to take up their own perspective on what is precarious, and to examine the impacts on intellectual leadership. What does it mean to do intellectual work and be an intellectual leader? What are the implications for intellectual work and leadership if the academy itself is in precarious times?
In these pages I intend presenting short articles that focus on knowledge production and educational policy/leadership
The first CEPaLS article is a reissue of my inaugural lecture from 2005.
In this paper I review Foster's contribution in his 1986 book Paradigms and Promises
This paper reports on my review of this edited collection.
This is an updated version of the paper I gave at BELMAS in 2004 based on my work in the 1990s on the use of Chaos Theory and field development.
This is a review essay I wrote for a symposium focused on the book at at BELMAS conference.
CEPaLS 06 is the paper I gave at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2013.
This is a paper that I gave at a conference in 2007.
This is text I produced for a commissioned project report that was not used.
This is a paper I gave at the 2011 BELMAS conference
This is a paper I gave with Alejandro Carrasco and Gabriel Gutierrez at the 2016 BERA conference.
Date | Award | Student Name | Title |
2021 | EdD | James Twigg | Towards an understanding of children’s accounts of learning in primary schools. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2020 | PhD | Luyao Huang | Social capital, education and entrepreneurial development 80,000 word thesis. |
2019 | PhD | Belinda (Bee) Hughes | An investigation into the Chief Executive Officer of a Multi Academy Trust in England. 90,000 word (Journal Format) Thesis. |
2019 | PhD | Omar Kaissi | Researching corporeality in education: an investigation of knowledge production in gender and education on boys and masculinities. 90,000 word (Journal Format) Thesis. |
2019 | EdD | Dr Lee Webster | An investigation into informed learning and postgraduate study: the SPIDER case study. 60,000 word thesis (Alternative Format), plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2019 | EdD | Becky Lunson Southall | Peer Wellbeing Champions in Secondary Schools. Towards an understanding of online-peer-mentoring and wellbeing. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2019 | EdD | Lewis Entwistle | An investigation into building democratic values and practices through young people’s experiences of knowledge and learning in a sixth form college 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2018 | EdD | Caroline Leah | Approved Mental Health Professionals: negotiating dialogic identities as hybrid professionals 50,000 word thesis. |
2017 | EdD | Liz Gregory | Towards a collective identity: a study of learners self-perception in the FE environment 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2017 | PhD | Wazerah Bawazeer | Women in leadership in higher education in KSA 80,000 word thesis. |
2017 | EdD | Stephen Rayner | Values and policy enactment: the interrelationship between decision-making processes, values and professional practice in an English secondary school. 60,000 word thesis (Alternative Format) plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2017 | EdD | Andy Graham | A study of the perceptions of academic staff of workload and performance management models. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2017 | EdD | Jennifer Silverthorne | An investigation into pharmacist professional formation. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2016 | EdD | Michael Burnitt | Primary Headteachers: Perceptions on Standards, Accountability and School Context 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2016 | EdD | Aleksander Jedrosz | Science teaching spaces: their impact on teaching. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2016 | EdD | Rachel Chard | A study of current teacher professionals and their attitudes towards promotion and careers. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2015 | PhD | Steven J Courtney | Investigating school leadership at a time of system diversity, competition and flux. 90,000 word (Alternative Format) thesis. |
2015 | EdD | Tony Fort | Constituting the Managerial Subject: an investigation into middle management in FE. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2015 | EdD | Victoria Ruth Johnson | Policy, practice and assessment: revealing the relationship between the GCSE English assessment and educational reproduction. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of two out of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2014 | PhD | Ruth McGinity | An investigation into localised policymaking at a time of rapid educational reform in England. 80,000 word thesis. |
2014 | EdD | Julian Skyrme | Contextual admissions and social justice in selective English higher education institutions. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2013 | PhD | Olga Campbell-Thomson | Exploring the process of national identity construction in the context of schooling in The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 80,000 word thesis. |
2013 | EdD | Patricia Davies | Student leadership of ICT for learning in a high school. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2013 | PhD | Ana-Cristina Popescu | Headteachers and the Decentralisation of Public Education in Post-Communist Romania. 80,000 word thesis. |
2013 | PhD | Christiana Karousiou | An Exploratory Study into Primary Teachers’ Professional Identity at a Time of Educational Reform in Cyprus. 80,000 word thesis. |
2012 | EdD | Adrian Lythgoe | A study of the professional identities of senior school leaders in areas of economic hardship. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2012 | PhD | Stephen Rogers | An investigation into New Labour Education Policy: personalisation, young people, schools and modernity. 80,000 word thesis. |
2012 | PhD | Diane Whalley | Policy and practice for children with complex needs. 80,000 word thesis. |
2011 | EdD | Maureen Cain | Inside the Primary School Leadership Team: an investigation into Primary school leadership practice and development as an integrated process. 50,000 word thesis, plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers as part of the Doctoral programme. |
2010 | EdD | Joe O’Connell | Towards an understanding of the factors that influence teacher engagement in continuing professional development. 50,000 word thesis; plus supervision of the three 10,000 word research papers within the Doctoral Programme. |
2009 | EdD | Craig Blyth | Disabled gay men and Manchester’s gay village: the socially and spatially constructed gay body. 50,000 word thesis. |
2008 | EdD | Charlotte Woods | Investigating Emotion in the Higher Education Workplace Using Q Methodology. 50,000 word thesis |
2008 | PhD | Wei Zhang | An Investigation of the Professional Learning of School Leaders in English Schools. 80,000 word thesis. |
2007 | PhD | Anne Lance | An investigation of policy and practice in the primary school. 80,000 word thesis |
2006 | EdD | Alison Taysum | The EdD and the learning journies of leaders in education. 50,000 word thesis; plus supervision of the eight 5,000 word research papers within the Doctoral Programme. |
2006 | PhD | Lin MacKenzie | An investigation into adult learners and learning: powerful learners and learning in three sites of adult education. 80,000 word thesis |
2004 | EdD | Lynn Bradbury | A study of women who are headteachers and mothers. 50,000 word thesis; plus supervision of the eight 5,000 word research papers within the Doctoral Programme. |
2004 | PhD | Robert Smith | Work, identity and the quasi-market: the FE experience. 80,000 word thesis |
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