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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