Chelmsford
07973194357
dave.hill@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications

• PhD Education Policy, London University Institute of Education, 2002
• MA Contemporary European Studies, Sussex University, 1979
• MA Curriculum Development, Sussex University, 1973
• BA (Hons) Politics and Modern History, Manchester University, 1966

Courses

• Doctoral supervision

Outline of Career

Dave taught at Stockwell Manor Comprehensive in ILEA, and has taught infants, juniors, secondary/ high school students, prisoners, adult education tutors, youth workers, Access Course students at Tower Hamlets College, and taught at a number of universities: Chichester University, the University of Northampton, Middlesex University and, for a semester, the University of Athens. In 2003, he founded and chief edits/manages the free, online, peer-juried journal, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, www.jceps.com, one of the widest read English language education journals globally, with 850,000 downloads since March 2003. He also set up and heads the Institute for Education Policy Studies (www.ieps.org.uk) an independent policy research and publishing unit.

In 1989 he co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators in Britain, writers, publishers and polemicists, chairing it 1989-2001. As from 2010 he co-organises the International Conference on Critical Education (ICCE), held in Greece in 2011 and 2012, and due to be held in Turkey in 2013.

Dave Hill lectures worldwide to academic, trade union and activist groups and conferences on the politics of education, Marxism and education, and issues of equality/ inequality,and locations of his speaking engagements have included Turkey, Taiwan, Australia, Finland, England, Portugal, Israel, Canada, India, Ireland, Greece, South Africa, Germany, France and the USA.

He is also Visiting Professor of Education at Middlesex University, London, England; Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Athens, Greece; Visiting Professor of Critical Education Policy and Equality Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland, and a Fellow of the International Institute for Research in Education (IIRE), Amsterdam.

At Anglia Ruskin University Dave specialises in doctoral supervision in the areas of and connected with critical education.

There is also a wikipedia entry on Dave Hill.

Research Interest

In his writing Dave Hill writes from a classical Marxist perspective, focusing on issues of social class, the relationship between social class and 'race', neoliberalism and neoconservatism, socialist education, Marxist critiques of New Labour/ social democratic and Conservative/Liberal Democrat policy on schooling and teacher education. His research publications are online at academia.edu, google scholar and some articles and chapters are online at www.ieps.org.uk. Dave is Series Editor for the Routledge Series Neoliberalism and Education. He has published 18 books and around a hundred chapters and academic articles.

Dave Hill is a lifelong socialist political activist, twice a Labour Parliamentary candidate (1979 and 1987), a Labour Council Group Leader in the 1980s, elected trade union regional leader in England and long-time trade union branch chair/shop steward. He has recently been a socialist candidate in the 2009 European elections and the 2010 UK general election, most recently for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.

Dave speaks at political and trade union meetings as well as academic meetings in various countries.

Selected Publications

Hill, D. and Robertson, L. Helavaara (eds.) (2009) Equality in the Primary School: Promoting good practice across the curriculum. London: Continuum

Hill, D. (ed.) (2009) Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance and Collective Advance. London: New York: Routledge.

Hill, D. (ed.) (2009) The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education: Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights. New York: Routledge.

Hill, D. (2013) Dave Hill: Marxist Essays on Postmodernism, Neoliberalism, Class, 'Race' and Education. Brighton: Institute for Education Policy Studies. (forthcoming)

Hill, D. (2012) Immiseration Capitalism, Activism and Education: Resistance, Revolt and Revenge. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10 (2). Online at www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=259

Hill, D. (2009) Culturalist and Materialist Explanations of Class and 'Race': Critical Race Theory, Equivalence/ Parallelist Theory and Marxist Theory. Cultural Logic: an electronic journal of Marxist Theory and Practice. Online at clogic.eserver.org/2009/2009.html

Hill, D. (2007) Critical Teacher Education, New Labour in Britain, and the Global Project of Neoliberal Capital. Policy Futures, 5 (2) pp. 204-225. Online at www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/5/issue5_2.asp

Hill, D. (2006) Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal/ Neoconservative Period. Information for Social Change, 23. Online at libr.org/isc/issues/ISC23/B1%20Dave%20Hill.pdf