Professor Dennis Hayes
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Job title: Head of the Research Centre for Education and Career Development, Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences
Email: d.hayes@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591266
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Recent publications
He has written and edited several books and the most recent, co-authored with Kathryn Ecclestone, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, 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'.
The fourth edition of the best selling Teaching and Training in Post-Compulsory Education, which he co-authored with his former colleagues, is due out next year.
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Education
Professional interests
- Therapeutic Education
- The McDonaldization of (Higher) Education
- Knowledge and the Curriculum
- Philosophy and Debate in Schools
- Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Dennis is well known for his educational journalism and is a member of the editorial board of the Times Higher Education magazine. He was previously a 'Backchat' columnist for 'FE Focus' in the Times Educational Supplement and writes an on-line column for The Free Society, he latest article is about Free Speech and the BNP 'No Platform' is No Platformed: but so is debate.
In 2006-7, he was the first joint president of the University and College Union (UCU), the largest post-compulsory education union in the world and is 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. He also co-ordinates the Institute of Ideas' Education Forum.
As the founder of the influential campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom he was the guest editor and a contributor the 2009 Special Edition of the British Journal of Educational Studies on Academic Freedom.
Media experience
Dennis' media credits include: BBC Radio Four (The Learning Curve, Straw Poll, The Moral Maze; From Abacus to Circle Time); BBC Radio 2; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Radio Essex; BBC Radio Kent; BBC Three Counties Radio; City Talk (Liverpool); SKY TV; 18 Doughty Street; Teachers TV; Fora TV; Times Higher Education, Times Educational Supplement, Independent, Church Times, Spiked!: Culture Wars.
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