(Ed.) (2011) In Defence of Teacher Education. (2016) Teaching and Training in Post-14 Education (5th Edition). Armitage, A., Hayes, D., Evershed, J., Lawes, S.(Eds.) (2017) The Role of the Teacher Today(SCETT: London). Hayes, D. (Ed.) (2017) Beyond McDonaldization: visions of higher education.(2017) It's Teaching NOT Therapy! London: CRE. I have written and edited several books including (with Kathryn Ecclestone) The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Educationwhich has been described as “one of the most important books to have been written in at least the last twenty years in that crucial area where philosophy, policy and practice coincide”. In the mediaīBC Radio Four ( The Learning Curve, Straw Poll, The Moral Maze From Abacus to Circle Time Beyond Belief: Broadcasting House Today PM) BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 5 Live BBC Radio Essex BBC Radio Kent BBC Three Counties Radio City Talk (Liverpool) Florida News Talk SKY TV 18 Doughty Street Teachers TV Fora TV Times Higher Education, Times Educational Supplement, Independent, Church Times, Spiked, City AM and Culture Wars. In 2014 I became the first education columnist for The Conversation. I was previously a 'Backchat' columnist for 'FE Focus' in the Times Educational Supplement and write regularly for Spiked, The Free Society and The Huffington Post. I am well known for my educational journalism and have been a member of the editorial board of the Times Higher Education magazine since its foundation. I am the founder and director of the influential campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom and available as a speaker and writer on free speech and academic freedom. I also co-ordinate the Institute of Ideas' Education Forum. In 2006-7, I was the first joint president of the University and College Union (UCU), the largest post-compulsory education union in the world and I am currently the Honorary Secretary of the Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers (SCETT) which represents through its constituent bodies, the trade unions and professional associations, the interests of 750,000 teachers in supporting and developing teacher education. Rose Schofield: Learning Relationships: the institutional construction of the diminished student self.Ruth Mieschbuehler : The Minoritisation of Higher Education Students. (Awarded 2015).Alison Hardman: The Future of Teacher Education.

Judith Gill: Academic Freedom in English Universities.

Kuldeep Banwait: The Student as Consumer.Current and relevant doctoral supervisions Applications from potential PhD students in this area are welcome.

My research interests are in all aspects of higher education, free speech and academic freedom. Professor of Education and Chair of the College of Education Research Committee (CERC).

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