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Seminar reminder. MMU
On Wednesday 9 October 2013 I shall be presenting at a seminar hosted by the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The seminar will take place 4.00pm –...
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Widening Participation in Higher Education
In a new article published by the British Journal of Sociology of Education Professor Penny Jane Burke and I discuss the role of professional and social class identities and commitments to people...
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Charging Apple MacBooks to the public purse aside, there is a lot we can...
During the past week I have been living in Gothenburg, Sweden, and intend to stay another week before returning to London. The purpose of my trip has been to develop a better understanding of the...
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Routledge Book Contract
I am pleased to announce that today I signed a book contract with Routledge. The book, tentatively titled School Governance and Governing Practices: A Foucauldian Approach, will be published as part of...
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Commercial Actors and the Governing of Education: The case of academy school...
In this guest blog Natalie Papanastasiou offers a summary of key findings from her recent article published in the European Educational Research Journal. The article will strike many as timely and...
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CCIG Presentation Slides: The Shadow of Ofsted
On Friday 28 March I gave the following presentation at a seminar called Governing by Inspection: Insights from International Perspectives, co-hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identity and...
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Free access to new article published in Journal of Education Policy
I’m pleased to announce that data generated from the project has been used as the basis for a new research article entitled Professionalising school governance: the disciplinary effects of school...
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School governance and neoliberal political rationality: what has democracy...
I have been invited to give a presentation at the University of Vic-UCC, Barcelona at the end of this month as part of an international two-day seminar entitled ‘Towards a democratic-common school...
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Spanish publication: School governance and neoliberal political rationality
Last year I was invited by Jordi Collet-Sabé at the University of Vic, Spain, to give a talk at an international conference entitled Towards a democratic-common school governance: beyond neoliberal...
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From deregulation to re-regulation
I have been invited to give a talk at the University of Plymouth on 17 July. The title of my talk is From deregulation to re-regulation: School governing and governance at a time of neo-liberal...
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Corporate elitism in school governance?
I have a chapter that has been accepted for inclusion in a forthcoming book to be published later this year by Policy Press called Corporate Elites and the Reform of Education. The book is edited by...
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