Professor Mike Neary

• Since 2008 Mike has been the invited keynote at more than fifty national and international teaching and learning conferences
• Mike has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Valparaiso, Chile, 2014
• In May 2014 he was awarded Lifetime Honorary Membership of the University of Lincoln’s Students’ Union as recognition for his work with students
• Chair of Interim Academic Board, Co-operative College, Manchester. This Board has been tasked to establish co-operative higher education across the UK

• PhD Sociology: University of Warwick, September 1994
• MA Employment and Planning (Distinction): Middlesex Polytechnic, July 1989
• BA Honours: University of Leeds, July 1977
• A and O Levels: St Cuthbert’s Grammar, Newcastle on Tyne, 1967-1974

Articles and chapters

Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2017) The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: the theory and practice of a radical idea. Roars Transactions, a Journal on Research Policy and Evaluation (RT), 5 (1). pp. 1-12.

Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2017) ‘Beyond public and private: a framework for co-operative higher education’. Open Library of Humanities.

Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2017) ‘There is an alternative: a report on an action research project to develop a framework for co-operative higher education’. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 10 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 1755-2273

Neary, M. (2015) ‘Educative Power: the Myth of Dronic Culture in a period of Civil War’, Culture Machine.

Neary, M. (2014), ‘The University and the City: Social Science Centre, Lincoln – forming the urban revolution’, in Temple, P. (ed) The Physical University: Contours of space and place in higher education. Abingdon, Routledge.

Neary, M. (2013) 'Student as Producer: Radicalising the Mainstream in Higher Education' in E. Dunn and D. Owen, The Student Engagement Handbook: Practice in Higher Education, Bingley: Emerald Books,

Neary, M. and Winn, J. (2012) ‘Open Education: Common(s), Commonism and the New Common Wealth’, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organisation, 12 (4).

Neary, Mike (2012) Teaching in Public – Policy, Pedagogy and the New European University. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10 (2).

Neary, Mike and Amsler, Sarah (2012) Occupy: A New Pedagogy of Time and Space. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10 (2).

Neary, M. and Saunders, Gary (2011) Learning Landscapes and the Struggle for the Idea of the University, Higher Education Quarterly, 65 (4).

Neary, Mike (2017) Academic Voices: from Public Intellectual to the General Intellect. Richard Hall and Joss Winn (eds.) Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury.

Neary, Mike (2016) Value: Critical Pedagogy, Participatory Art and Higher Education. Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen ( eds.) Against Value in the Arts and Education. London and New York: Rowan and Littlefield.

Books (selection)

Neary, Mike (2019) Student as Producer: How Do Revolutionary Teachers Teach? Zero Books.

Neary, Mike,  Bell, Les, and Stevenson, Howard  (eds.) (2012) Teaching in Public: Reshaping Higher Education. London: Continuum.

Bell, Les, Stevenson, Howard, and Neary, Mike (eds.) (2009) The Future of Higher Education: Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience. London: Continuum,

Dinerstein, Ana C. and Neary, Michael (2002) The Labour Debate: an investigation into the theory and reality of capitalist work. Aldershot: Ashgate.