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Publications

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Education 3-13 Vol 54, pp. 571-586 (2026)

, Krejsler John Benedicto

European Conference on Educational Research (2025)

, , Óskarsdóttir Edda, Waterman-Evans Louis, Paulgaard Gry, Turunen Tuija, Saus Merete, Vijayavarathan-R Kalpana, Darling-McQuistan Kirsten

European Conference on Educational Research 2025 (2025)

Pedagogy, Culture and Society Vol 33, pp. 1277-1297 (2025)

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Scottish Educational Review Vol 55, pp. 5-37 (2025)

Nordic Educational Research Association Annual Conference (2025)

Teaching

In his teaching, Paul is particularly interested in the relationship between the development of professional pedagogic expertise and education policy, systems and processes. He currently has a large number of doctoral and masters students, alongside a smaller number of undergraduate dissertation supervisees. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate modules and courses, including: BA Education Studies; PGDE; MSc Education Studies and the EdD

Research Interests

Paul's doctoral study was a Social Constructivist/Social Constructionist theoretcial exposition of policy discourses under the auspices of New Labour. In his publications he explored the epistemological position for contemporary policy which culminated in a new perspective on educational policy-making:Ìýpolicy as positioning.

From 2007 to 2009 Paul was a member of the Evaluation team forÌýÌý⁴Ìýa pan-European project concerned with nutrition and movement.

Paul was a member of the Executive Council for theÌý⁵Ìý(ASPE) from 2011 to 2015 and is currently Deputy Editor for the Peer Reviewed JournalÌý⁶.

Paul’s broad research areas are in the policy and politics of education all under the broad banner of social and educational inclusion. He favours a social constructionist approach to studying education and related issues. Paul's current research is primarily theoretical in orientation, although he does undertake empirical work as well. His current work centres on conceptual matters relating to becoming a teacher, education policy and the limits of truth, and Scottish education policy developments. Between 2017 and 2023 he was co-PI (with Professor Aileen Kennedy, ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ) for a Scottish Government funded project (MQuITE).

For the academic year 2020 to 2021, he was awarded an Academic Fellowship of the Scottish Parliament. In this work, Paul produced a briefing paper for the Scottish Parliament titled 'Scottish Initial Teacher Education (ITE): ten years on' which considered the structure of ITE 10 years after the publication of the Donaldson Report (2010). Between January and March 2023, Paul was PI for the New Northern Pedagogies Group established following a successful Scottish Government Arctic Connections Scheme and is currently PI on a Royal Society of Edinburgh funded project seeking to extend membership of the NNPG to Greenland and Canada.

Paul welcomes PhD enquiries from anyone interested in education policy, Initial and continuing teacher education and learning; professional development, post-truth thinking, care and education and related matters.

Professional Activities

Participant

20/2/2025

Speaker

28/11/2024

Editor

1/5/2024

Visiting researcher

17/4/2024

Speaker

7/3/2024

Chair

15/1/2024

Projects

Adams, Paul (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025

Adams, Paul (Principal Investigator)

PO Number is SG1065706

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025

Adams, Paul (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023

Adams, Paul (Co-investigator) Carse, Nicola (Co-investigator) Hamilton, Lorna (Co-investigator) Jaap, Angela (Co-investigator)

This SERA sponsored project aims to collaborate on developing an understanding of pedagogy to support those engaged with teacher education and learning across Scotland. Through a series of online events, participants engage with provocations designed to stimulate thinking around the concept of pedagogy and how such views might inform teacher preparatin and CLPL. Funding is curretly being sought to augment the projet so that it might add face-to-face elements.

09-Jan-2021

Adams, Paul (Principal Investigator)

During this 12 month Fellowship, I am undertaking a project titled 'Scottish Initial Teacher Education (ITE): ten years on'. The project is a conceptual, normative analysis of ITE with associated proposals as to what Scottish ITE might be for and what it might seek to achieve. I will identify possible positions for ITE that have been articulated since 2010. The work is desk-based and utilises government publications, academic reports, research articles, print media (in English) and other sources.

01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021

Adams, Paul (Principal Investigator) Kenklies, Karsten (Principal Investigator) Lewin, David (Principal Investigator)

Faculty and School funding to develop further collaborative links with EduHK

01-Jan-2019