Professor Ivan Reid
BA[Soc.Sci],
MA[Soc], Phd[Soc.Ed], CertEd, CertPS, FCollP, FRSA is Visiting
Professor in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John
University.
Trained as a history teacher at the then St John’s College
[1959-61] he taught Mathematics in a comprehensive school and
general subjects in a secondary modern school. His career has been
almost exclusively in teacher education and training, though he
regards himself as a sociologist and this is reflected in his
publications. He has taught, researched and managed at Edge Hill
College of Education and the Universities of Liverpool, Bradford,
Leeds and Loughborough. He has published extensively – some dozen
books, over a hundred academic papers and a large number of reports
and monographs - in the fields of his research and scholarly
activity, primarily on British social inequalities and educational
opportunity, the sociology of education, teacher education and the
evaluation of local and national education policy initiatives. He
has acted as a consultant, visiting academic or external examiner
in some ten countries worldwide. He is the Executive Editor of
Research in Education and a Founder Executive Editor of
the British Journal of Sociology of Education. He served
twice as Vice Chair of the Universities’ Council for the Education
of Teachers [UCET], and was Vice President of the International
Council on the Education of Teachers [ICET]. He is Emeritus
Professor of Education at Loughborough University and Honorary
Visiting Professor of the Sociology of Education, in the School of
Lifelong Education and Training, at Bradford University. He was
co-researcher on the HEA funded research ‘Embedding Widening
Participation and Promoting Student Diversity. What can be learned
from a business case approach?’ He has recently undertaken research
on widening participation in HE, student diversity, isolation or
integration in the UK and India [funded by UKIERI], and has made
presentations on WP in the UK, Canada, Nigeria and India. This year
he is to be a Visiting Scholar at Johannesburg University, South
Africa and Ballarat University, Australia. Over a number of years
he has supervised a considerable number of higher degrees across a
broad spectrum of approaches - from ethnographic to the analysis of
official data - a number of disciplines - mainly sociology,
psychology, social psychology and history - and sited in a range of
situations, including most educational and some para-medical,
familial and voluntary institutional ones and spanning several
countries. Currently he remains available for research degree
supervision.
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