BA (hons) English (King's College London)
PGCE (Birmingham Polytechnic)
PhD in Education (Birmingham University)
I am a member of UCU, IPDA and BERA
i) Barbara Hooker EdD University of Wolverhampton (Director of Studies): A Narrative Exploration of Teacher Identity withinPost Compulsory Education, completion May 2016.
ii) Sara Smith EdD University of Wolverhampton (Second Supervisor). Completion January 2018.
iii) Chris Davies EdD University of Wolverhampton (Director of Studies): An investigation into the effects of government changes to the further education sector on teacher identities and notions of professionalism at a meso and micro organisational level using visual images, metaphors and narrative. Completion June 2018.
iv) Julie Wilde EdD (Director of Studies): ongoing.
v) Anne Groll PhD (Director of Studies): ongoing.
vi) Lorna Loy PhD (Second Supervisor): ongoing.
vii) Ann Cubbin PhD (Director of Studies) ongoing.
Smith, R. (2013) Data-driven quality versus ‘real’ quality in FE, Intuition, Volume 14, pp21-27.
Smith, R. (2015) College re-culturing, marketisation and knowledge: the meaning of incorporation, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 47:1, 18-39.
Smith, R. (2015) 400+ Varieties: Skillz Meanz Marketised FE, FE News, Friday 5 June 2015
Smith, R. (2015) FE teachers, broken funding and dissent, Post 16 Educator, Issue 80 July- September.
Smith, R. (2017) Building Colleges for the future: pedagogical and ideological spaces, Journal of Education Policy. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uk9EIcdk5P9T6pY7U3Tv/full
Co authored
Duckworth, V. and Smith, R. 2017. Interim report: Further education in England - Transforming lives and communities. London: UCU.
Duckworth V. and Smith, R. 2017. Further education in England: transforming lives and communities. Women’s stories of empowerment and empowering. London: UCU. March 2017.
Garbett, G., Orrocks, D. and Smith R. (2013) Culture Clash: Mentoring student Literacy educators in a marketised and instrumentalist FE policyscape, Research in Post Compulsory Education, Volume 18, No.3, 239-256. (Smith as lead writer)
Gleeson, D., Hughes, J., O’Leary, M. and Smith, R. (2015) The state of professional practice and policy in the English further education system: a view from below, Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 20:1, 78-95.
Smith, R. and Wright, V. (2015) The possibilities of re-engagement: cultures of literacy education and so-called NEETs, Research in Post Compulsory Education. 20(4), 400-418. (Smith as lead writer)
Smith, R. & O’Leary, M. (2013) NPM in an Age of Austerity: Knowledge and Experience in Further Education,Journal of Educational Administration and History. Volume 45, No. 3, 244-266. (Smith as lead writer).
Smith, R. and O’Leary, M. (2015) Partnership as cultural practice in the face of neoliberal reform, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 47:2, 174-192, (Smith as lead writer).
Wright, V. & Smith, R. (2014) Literacy education and NEETs: skills-based versus socially situated approaches to curriculum, RaPaL, Volume 83, 7-15.
(May 2017) with Iris Bendavdid Hadar and Stephoni Case: School funding formulae: designed to create a learning society?
Appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss the misuse of pupil premium funds in a local academy chain.
Appeared on BBC Radio Liverpool discussing the FE transforms project 29th January 2017.
