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My CV
Education
2006
NOCN
CQF Level 2 Developing Creative Entrepreneurs
2000 Admitted to Institute for Learning and Teaching in
Higher Education (1st March) (now HEA). Made a Fellow
March 2007.
1999 Accredited Teacher status, SEDA.
1999 Passed Open University postgraduate course HH661 Teaching
in Higher Education.
1985 PhD, Sociology, (London University).
1970 MA Sociology, (Essex University).
1969 PGCE in Education, London (Avery Hill).
1968 BSc (Econ) Hons 2:1, London (LSE).
Experience
Current Post
Emeritus Professor of Leisure and Education, UCP
Marjon
Previous
Posts
2009--11 Professor of Leisure and Education,
UCP Marjon. Retired 2011
2009--10
Director of the Centre for Educational Research,
UCP Marjon
2000- Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences,
University College Plymouth St Mark and St John
1996 - 2000
Reader in Social Sciences (temporary), College of St
Mark and St John
1976-99 OU Regional Tutor (a.k.a Associate Lecturer)
for E351, E812, E814, E815
1988-93 Consultant to Deakin University
(Australia) (contributed to MA), Open
University UK.
1988-90 Head of Sociology Media Subject Group,
College of St Mark and St John.
1988 Co-ordinator, Open University Summer
School (E812).
1980 Lecturer in Philosophy, Chancellor
College, Malawi, October-December.
1976 - 1996 Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences,
College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth.
1974-76 Lecturer, College of St. Mark and St.
John, Plymouth.
1970-73 Research Assistant in Curriculum
Design, Open University.
Other professional experience
Sociology partner for CSAP Open Repository
Project 2009--10.
Sociology Associate C-SAP 2009--10
External Examiner - PhD theses, University of Tasmania,
Deakin University (x3), University of Melbourne.
Reviewer/referee Routledge and Sage
Bid reviewer C-SAP.
Co-editor C-SAP monograph (with J Cope and J Canaan)
Member C-SAP Sociology Reference Group 2005--08
Guest reviewer/referee special edition of Open Learning
Publications
Solo-Authored
Books
2005 Key
Concepts in Leisure Studies, London: Sage
Publications (translated into Greek 2011)
2003 Teaching Yourself Social Theory, London,
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
1996 A Society of Signs?, London and New York:
Routledge (tranlsated into S Korean 1998)
1992 From Class Struggle to the Politics of
Pleasure: the effects of gramscianism in cultural
studies, London and New York: Routledge.
1987 Open-ness and Closure in Distance Education,
London: Falmer Press.
Jointly-Authored/Edited Books
2007 How
To Succeed in Your Social Science Degree, (with Dr H
Arksey), London: Sage Publications
2006 Teaching
Social Theory (ed., with J Cope and J
Canaan) C-SAP monograph
Chapters in books
2011
'The Paradoxes of Flexible Learning', in Burge, E,
Campbell Gibson, C. & Gibson, T (eds) Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible
Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance
Education. Athabasca: Athabasca University
Press
2011
'Syllabus independence and the library', in Baker,
D. and Evans, W. (eds) Libraries and Society: Role,
Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change,
London: Chandos Publishing
2010 ‘Researching
Visual Culture’ (with I Gilhespy)
in Morgan, M., Lugosi, P. & Brent Ritchie,
J.R.(eds) The
Tourism and Leisure Experience: Consumer and Managerial
Perspectives, Bristol: Channel View
Publications
2008 'Hegemony and the Media' in Ritzer, G. (ed)
Concise Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford, Blackwell
Publishing Ltd.
2008 'Distance
Education: In Whose Interests?' in Evans,
T
D, Haughey, M & Murphy, D (eds) International
Handbook of Distance Education, London:
Emerald
2006 ' Social
Theory and Strategic Communication' in Cope, J.,
Canaan, J. and Harris, D. (eds) Learning and Teaching
Social Theory, Birmingham: C-SAP.
2006
'Hegemony and the Media' in Ritzer, G. (ed) Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
2006 'Articulation', in Rojek, C, Shaw, S and Veal, T
(eds) Handbook of
Leisure Studies, London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
2002
' Educational technology: emergent qualities and
unintended consequences' in Evans T (ed) Research in
Distance Education, 5 (e-book) online
2000 'Knowledge and Networks', in Evans T and Nation D
(eds) Changing University Technologies, London:
Kogan Page.
1995 'Still Seeking the Audience?' in Lockwood, F.
(ed) Research and Development in Distance
Education, London: Routledge.
1994 '"Active Learning" and "Study Skills", the Return
of the Technical Fix?', in Evans, T and Murphy, D (eds)
Research in Distance Education 3, Geelong: Deakin
University Press.
1993 Two contributions to Middleton C et al. (eds) Sociology
Teaching Handbook. BSA September 1993.
1993 'Distance education at the margins' in Evans T. and
Nation D. (eds). Reforming Open and Distance
Education: Critical Reflections from a Practice.
London: Kogan Page.
1992 'Distance Education: Researching Formations' in
Juler P. and Evans T. (eds). Research in
Distance Education 2, Geelong: Deakin University
Press.
1991 'Towards a Critical Educational Technology in
Distance Education' in King B. and Evans T. (eds). Beyond
the Text..., Geelong: Deakin University Press.
1978 'Open-ness
and Control in Higher Education: towards a critique of
the Open University' (with J Holmes) in Dale R. et al.
(eds) Schooling
and Capitalism,
London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul.
Journal Articles
2012 'Work and Leisure in Higher Education', in British Journal of
Sociology of Education, 32(1) : 115--32 DOI:10.1080/01425692.2012.632869
2011 'Reusable Learning Objects: Evaluating the Outcomes
of Multi-Media and Single Media RLOs' (with Ian
Gilhespy), LINK
28 (online)
.
2011 'Mangerialism and Myth: challenges to the
legitimacy of management in higher education' in Power and Education,
3 (2): 117-27.
2011
'Presentation software: Pedagogical constraints and
potentials' in JoHLSTE
10(1): 72--84 (online
here)
2009
'On Dialogue in Universities,'in Critical and Reflective
Practice in Education, 1 (1) (available
online here)
2006
'Bibliographic
Databases
and
Independent
Learning'
(with
W.
Evans
and
I.
Gilhespy),
in
LINK 17
2005 'Using
MCQ in Leisure Studies' in LINK 14 (online here)
2005
'Leisure Studies as a Teaching Object' in JoHLSTE 4(1) (
available online here)
1999
'A-level Sociology Texts' in Reviewing Sociology 1999, vol 11 [now
online]
1996 'Is there
sociology after postmodernism' in Reviewing Sociology 1996, 9:.3 pp
4-12 [now
online]
1991 'Quality
Support: Measurement and Myth' (with D. Gorbutt and M.
Harris) in Assessment
and Evaluation in Higher Education, 16: 1, 37--48.
1988 'The
Micropolitics of Open-ness' in Open Learning, 3: 2.
1988
'Multiculturalism and the Social Distribution of
Critical Capacity' in Perspectives 39
1978 'On Marxist Bias', Journal of Further and
Higher Education, 2: 2.
1976 'Educational Technology at the Open
University: A short history of achievement and
cancellation', British Journal of Educational
Technology, 7: 1.
Electronic
Blended
learning modules for CSAP Open
Educational Repositories Project 2010. A module on
Sociology of Leisure (with I Gilhespy), and one on
Introductory Research Methods (with I Gilhespy and I
Roberts). Stored on JORUMOpen:
Sociology of
leisure: http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/browse?value=sociology_of_leisure&type=subject
Research methods: http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/search?rpp=10&etal=0&query=research_methods&page=1&order=DESC&sort_by=0.
Resource guide in
Leisure, Consumerism and Popular Culture, HEA
Hospitality, Leisure Sport and Tourism Network, online
Current
projects
Designing
RLOs with Xerte (see menu here) .Also stored on Xpert
Repository
Designing RLOs (with Microsoft
Producer) -- specimen here
website components for Key
Concepts...
(click here)
Conference
Papers
2011 'Education
Without Universities', Discourse Power and Resistance
Conference, Plymouth, April 13--15
2010 'RCP -- The Seond Time as Farce', Open
University conference November 3rd
2010 'Teaching
to the Test?', C-SAP national half-day conference,
Plymouth, July 19th
2010 'On authenticity' FSMCA
Research Day, Plymouth. July 13th
2010 'E-learning and 'rational
pedagogy', C-SAP national conference, London July
9th
2010 'On Bourdieu', CREST Symposium, London, July
7th
2009 'The
Vision of Derwent Coleridge' ( with P Grosch) . CUAC
Conference, London May 2009
2009
'Work and Leisure in Higher Education, BSA Annual
Conference, Cardiff, April [online here]
2005 'The
neutralisation of risk in higher education'
(with H Arksey), BSA Annual
Conference, York University, March [online here]
2005 'Social theory and strategic
thinking' , C-SAP Conference, Birmingham,
March (to be published in C-SAP Monograph)
2004
'On Social Theory' (roundtable contribution, C-SAP
Annual Conference, Birmingham, March
2001 'The Disney
Experience: researching the active visitor', presented
to the MA Tourism Conference, College of St Mark and
St John, Plymouth.
2001 'Libraries,
librarians and the Web' presented to a conference of
the Careers Development Group, College of St Mark and
St John.
2000 'Towards a
Sociology of Study Skills', BSA Annual Conference,
York University, April 2000
2000 'Educational
technology: forms and effects', presented at the RIDE
2000 Conference, Deakin University, Geelong, December
2000 'Weaving a
web: reflections on on-line entrepreneurship', given
to the Faculty of Education, Deakin University,
Geelong, December
1999 Two
contributions to SSP2000 project conferences on
teaching social theory [now online here] and here
1997 'Distance
Education and its Technologies' , presented at the
Annual COFHE Conference, Exeter, March 1997 [online]
1996 'British
Cultural Studies and "Academic Realism"', given at
Teaching Culture and the Cultures of Teaching, Sussex
University, March 1996 [now
online]
1993 '"Active
learning" and study skills: A technical
fix?',presented at the RIDE93 Conference, Deakin
University, Australia.
1991 'Educational
Media and Popular Media' at Deakin University,
'Distance Education: Researching Formations' at the
RIDE91 Conference at Deakin and 'Educational Media'
(with Dr. A. Morgan) at a public seminar at Monash
University, Melbourne.
1990 'Racism in
Predominantly-White Areas '(with Popple K. and Popple
S.), presented to the BSA Annual Conference, University
of Surrey.
1990 'The Subject in Cultural Studies - A Reply to Alan
Tomlinson', presented to the Leisure Studies Association
Conference, Plymouth.
1989 'Emancipatory Claims and Micropolitical Practice:
teaching the Sociology of Education', presented to the
British Sociological Association Annual Conference on
Sociology in Action, Plymouth. [now online]
1987 'Educational Technology and the "Colonisation"
of Academic Work' Presented to the B.S.A. Annual
Conference, Leeds. [now online]
1987 'On Distance Education' presented to the Institute
of Educational Technology, Open University. [version online]
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