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Dr Simon Edwards
Biography
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and and senior lecturer School of Education and Sociology and leader for the Childhood and Youth Studies with Social Pedagogy undergraduate pathway degree.
I am also module leader on the MA Education degree and PhD supervisor. I am departmental ethics representative and member of the faculty ethics committe. My research and innovation projects include developing Beyond the School Gates, a youth work informed charity that trains former excluded students to draw on their own lived experiences in order to mentor current excluded students and their parents to re-engage their education.
Research interests
- Youth work and Alternative Education
- Youth voice and advocacy
- Social Justice
- Social networking and social media
- Democratic citizenship
- Qualititative research including PAR methods
- Social Pedagogy