Staff Profile
Dr Charlotte Haines Lyon
Associate Professor
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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 later 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. Much of my work is around working with young people to carry out their own research to then take action to improve situations relevant to them, the main project I have been leading on in this regard has been Toilet Talk.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – c.haineslyon@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 911
- Research - View my work in RaY
- Postgraduate Research Supervisor
Further information
Teaching
I am a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy.
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 ethics
- Education policy
- Social theory
- Global perspectives,
- Inequalities and families.
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 (Toilet Talk), authoritarian behaviour policies in schools and democratic research methodologies. This involves taking an intersectional, feminist, 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).
- Populism in education.
Publications and conferences
Selected articles
For further information see: Google Scholar Profile
Articles
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2024) Demonic education: rethinking education through a political theology lens. Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, 66 (1). pp. 115-129.
Haines Lyon, C., Little, A., Dobson, E., Glover, O., Patterson, J., Telford, J., & Noret, N. (2024). Toilet talk: using a students as researchers approach to problematize and co-construct school toilet policy and practice. Gender and Education, 36(7), 801–816. https://doi-org.yorksj.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/09540253.2024.2389108.
Green, Matthew; Mierzwinski, Mark; Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2024) Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education, Sport, Education and Society, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2024.2315175
Clarke, Matthew; 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), pp130-139
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.
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.13(3), pp. 187-204.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2018) Democratic parent engagement: relational and dissensual. Power and Education. 10 (2). pp. 195-208.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2016) For the love of libraries: a student eye view. Taking Stock, 24 (2). p. 18.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2015) Exploring community philosophy as a tool for parental engagement in a primary school. International Journal for Transformative Research, 3 (1).
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (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
Clarke, M, Shanks R, Haines Lyon, C. (2024) Beyond utopia/dystopia in education: Bodily abjection, heterotopias and counter-sites of freedom, BERA Conference, 8th-12th September 2024, Manchester University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2021) Unlocking Education, In Pandemic, Protests, Recovery, Opportunity. In What’s next for research in Education Conference, 12th 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, 16th Annual Conference, 8th-11th September 2019, Manchester University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2018) The Fid as Action Research: A Rupturing Approach. In BERA Conference, 11-13th September Northumbria University.
Haines Lyon, Charlotte (2018) Community Philosophy (workshop). In Talking About Teaching Conference, 26th June 2018, 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, 5-7th 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) Relational Democracy. In: BERA Conference, 12-15th September, University of Leeds.
Blog posts
Haines Lyon, Charlotte. (2023) Inclusive assessment strategies at Masters Level. Available from https://www.inclusiveeducationframework.info/inclusive-assessment-strategies-at-masters-level/.
Little, Alice., Josh, Oscar, Elliott, Haines Lyon, Charlotte, and Noret, Nathalie. (2022) Toilet Talk: Empowering young people in schools to research and talk about toilet issues – Gender and Education Association GEA. Available from http://www.genderandeducation.com/featured/haines-lyon/.
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 the Chair of School Ethics Committee, School of Education, Language and Psychology, and also a Co-convener of Participatory Enquiry, Action Research and Democratic Methodologies Research Group, Institute of Social Justice, York St John.
Until recently I was the Chair of Governors for a primary school for 6 years and was a governor for 14 years in total.
I am the editor of the John Macmurray Seminar newsletter.
I am an external examiner at Staffordshire University.
