Staff Profile
Dr Charlotte Haines Lyon
Senior Lecturer
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My background is in Youth and Community work, and my first degree was in Informal and Community Education (YMCA George Williams College). Having worked in a variety of youth and community settings, I moved on to Adult Education including working with Age Concern and volunteers and staff at the Methodist Church Connexional Team (headquarters). During this time I gained my Masters in Philosophy and Religion at Heythrop College (UCL). I gained my PhD at York St John University in 2019, and recently became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In 2004, I started work as a freelance writer for a variety of charities and agencies including Christian Aid and the Department for International Development. I also offered freelance staff training and taught craft in community settings.
Throughout my career I have had a strong interest in social justice and democracy and this is evident in my writing, teaching and research. More recently I have been developing Democratic Methodologies in Educational Research, and have particular interests in the trend towards populism and the current culture wars in education.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – c.haineslyon@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 911
- Research - View my work in RaY
Teaching
I teach on the undergraduate suite in Children Young People and Education. Specifically I teach the research and dissertation modules across all three degrees, as well as supervise dissertation students.
I teach and supervise students on the Masters in Education, and am module lead for Contemporary Issues, National, Global and Local.
I teach on a range of modules on the EdD professional doctorate, especially regarding discourse analysis and ethical research.
My specialist areas are:
- Research methodologies
- Research ethic
- Education policy
- Social theory
- Global perspectives,
- Inequalities and families.
I teach on the following courses:
- Professional Doctorate in Education
- MA Education
- BA Hons Development & Education of Children & Young People Top-Up
- BA Hons Education Studies
- BA Hons Children Young People and Families.
I promote inclusive and democratic research and hope that students can see how their research can make a difference to the world.
Research
My PhD ('Unpicking the neoliberal noose: working towards democratic parent engagement in a primary school.') was completed in 2019 and I am now researching a variety of education issues that promote democratic voice in local, national and global settings. My current research includes working with children and young people to research and improve problems with their school toilet policy and practice. including education under lockdown, toilet policy and practice in schools, authoritarian behaviour policies in schools and democratic research methodologies. This involves taking an intersectional and political approach.
Having used action research and critical discourse analytics in my doctoral research, I have a strong interest in participatory research, innovative research methodologies and feminist research. This is reflected in the wide range of doctoral candidates that I supervise.
Doctoral supervision:
- Queering the Spectacle: a participatory study of the Legacy of Section 28 in Primary Schools.
- Participatory Research with Autistic Adults.
- Ethnographic study of intercultural education.
- Autoethnographic action research study of community activism in Liverpool.
- Case study of academic tutoring in a Higher Education setting.
- Ethnographic and participatory study of bullying and banter in PE in a secondary school.
- A decolonial policy analysis of development education.
- A qualitative study of employability agendas in Higher Education.
- Developing young people as researchers (A critical case study exploration of voice recognition)
Publications and conferences
Selected articles
For further information see: Google Scholar Profile
Walz, Linda, Haines Lyon, Charlotte , Bright, Graham, Walton, Joan and Reid, Kalen (2023) Unlocking education through relationship building: Discourses of identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid-19. British Educational Research Journal, 49 (4). pp. 711-730.
Clarke, Matthew and Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2023) The evil of authoritarian education: Banality and compliance in the neoliberal era. Forum: For Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, 65 (1). pp. 130-139. Item availability may be restricted.
Collet-Sabe, Jordi, Garcia-Molsosa, Marta, Clarke, Matthew and Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2022) Fiscal cuts in education and their effects: politicising learned helplessness as a disciplinary technology in education leaders in Catalonia. An exploratory research study. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30 (159).
Clarke, Matthew, Haines Lyon, Charlotte, Walker, Emma , Walz, Linda, Collet, Jordi and Pritchard, Kate (2021) The banality of education policy: Discipline as extensive evil in the neoliberal era. Power and Education.
Haines Lyon, C (2018) Democratic parent engagement: relational and dissensual. Power and Education. 10 (2). pp. 195-208.
Haines Lyon, C (2016) For the love of libraries: a student eye view. Taking Stock, 24 (2). p. 18.
Haines Lyon, C (2015) Exploring community philosophy as a tool for parental engagement in a primary school. International Journal for Transformative Research, 3 (1).
Haines Lyon, C (2008) 'Kill Bill Volume 2: A Film Worthy of Meaning Making?' Particip@tions, 5 (1).
Book chapters
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2022) Democratic Engagement. In: Rose, Jo, Jay, Tim, Mazzoli-Smith, Laura and Todd, Liz, (eds.) Respositioning Out-of-School Learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Ltd (In Press)
Clark, Jill, Haines Lyon, Charlotte, Jay, Tim and Laing, Karen (2022) Ethical practice in out of school learning. In: Rose, Jo, Tim, Jay, Goodall, Janet, Mazzoli-Smith, Laura and Todd, Liz, (eds.) Respositioning Out-of-School Learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Ltd (In Press)
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2020) Working towards a democratic home-school imaginary. In: Schostak, John, Clarke, Matthew and Hammersley-Fletcher, Linda, (eds.) Paradoxes of Democracy, Leadership and Education Struggling for Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century. Foundations and Futures of Education, London, Routledge, pp. 123-133
Haines Lyon, Charlotte and Marsh, Clive (2008) Film's role in contemporary meaning making; a theological challenge to cultural studies. In: Knauss, S. and Ornella, A., (eds.) Reconfigurations; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-Secular Society. London, Lit Verlag
Conference items
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2021) Unlocking Education, In Pandemic, Protests, Recovery, Opportunity: What’s next for research in Education Conference, 12 July, Brighton University.
Clarke, Matthew, Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2019) Economies of Enjoyment and Zero-Tolerance Policies in Schools (symposium) In Manchester Centre for Political Theory 2019, 16 Annual Conference, 8-11 September 2019, Manchester University.
Clarke, Matthew, Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2018) Haunted by Ability: Biocapitalist Schooling and Thanato-Politics (Symposium) In British Educational Research Association Conference, 11-13 September Northumbria University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2018) The Fid as Action Research: A Rupturing Approach. In British Educational Research Association Conference, 11-13 September Northumbria University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2018) Community Philosophy (workshop). In Talking About Teaching Conference, 26 June 2018, York St John University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte, Clarke Matthew (2018) Fantasies of Sovereignty and the Demise of the Democratic Educational Imaginary. In: The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism Conference 2018, 25 May, York St John University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2017) Parents: Villains, Ineptitudes or Fellow Actors? Using Laclau and Mouffe's Discourse to Contest and Renew the Home-School Imaginary. In BERA Conference 2017, 5-7 September, University of Sussex.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2017) Parent Engagement: Beyond Instrumentalisation. In European Research Network About Parents in Education Conference 2017, 5-7 July 2017, University of Roehampton.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2016) ‘Precarious Voices’: From Containment to Dissensus. In: Precarity, Rage and Reason. Society for Women in Philosophy 2016, 8-10 July 2016, Brighton University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2016) Relational Democracy. In: BERA Conference 2016, 12-15 September, University of Leeds.
Podcast
Haines Lyon, Charlotte; Ralls, Deborah; Stuart, Kaz (2021) Democratic Methodologies: Disrupting Research. Conversations in Social Justice series. Institute of Social Justice.
Professional activities
I am a co founder of the Democratic Methodologies Network, and co-chair of the YSJ Participatory and Democratic Methodologies Research Group.
I am also the Chair of the Ethics Committee for the School of Education, Language, and Psychology. This enables me to grapple with a wide range of ethical issues in research and develop good practice. This year I ran a symposium exploring the concept of vulnerability in participatory research.
I am external examiner for Staffordshire University which helps me keep up-to-date with the wider HE Sector.
I have been Chair of Governors for a primary school for some time which enables me to keep my work grounded and ensure I understand the current state of education.
As a member of the steering group for Institute for Social Justice I am able to continually push forward the social justice agenda in a range of work.
