Dennis Hayes

Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby and a visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2010.

He is the founder and director of the campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF)

Dennis is known for his educational writing and journalism and is a member of the editorial board of the Times Higher Education magazine.

In 2006-7, he was the first joint president of the University and College Union, the largest post-compulsory education union in the world.

Since moving to Derby in 2009 he has helped organise the East Midlands Salon which meets monthly, alternating between Derby and Nottingham.

Related Sessions

Saturday 31 October 2009, 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Therapy Culture: changing the subject?

Sunday 1 November 2009, 10.45am Lecture Theatre 2
Philosophy 4 Children: can kids do Kant?


Publications

Teaching and Training in Lifelong Learning (4th edn Open University Press, September 2011)
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (Routledge, March 2008)
A Lecturer’s Guide to Further Education (Open University Press, September 2007)


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Lynne Featherstone MP, Liberal Democrats