Emeritus Professor

graham.badley@anglia.ac.uk
0845 196 3790

Qualifications

• BA
• PGCE
• Adv. Dip. Ed.
• MEd
• PhD

Courses

Mainly postgraduate training for PhD students

Outline of your career

Badley began as a lecturer in English and General Studies at Kirkby College of Further Education. He then taught philosophy of education in the School of Education, Liverpool Polytechnic. After that he became Principal Lecturer in Education at Anglia focusing on learning and teaching in further and higher education and developing what became the Centre for Learning and Teaching for the university as a whole.

He helped create the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) as well as the British Universities Transatlantic Exchange Association (BUTEX) and was one of its first co-chairs. He has maintained a keen interest in researching a range of issues in higher education and now concentrates mainly on problems connected with academic writing for postgraduates and academic staff. He publishes widely and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals including Teaching in Higher Education.

Badley was created Professor of Academic Development in 1994 and now works mainly for the Research Support Unit as an Emeritus Professor.

Research Interest

Badley examines the processes and problems of writing at postgraduate and academic staff levels.

Selection Publications

'A place from where to speak': the university and academic freedom. British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 57 No 2 June 2009: 146-163

Academic writing: contested knowledge in the making. Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 17 No 2, 2009: 10-11

A reflective essaying model for higher education. Education + Training (2009) Vol. 51 No 4:249-258

Publish and get doctor-rated: the PhD by published work. Quality Assurance in Education (2009) Vol. 17, No. 4: 331-342.

Valuing essays: Essaying values. Research in Post-Compulsory Education (2010) Vol. 15, No. 1: 103-115

Academic writing: A frivolous approach? Teaching in Higher Education 2011 16 (2) 255-266.

Case notes for the impeachment of an ability traitor: A textor's inquiry Qualitative Inquiry 2011 17(1) 93-98.

Leavesdropping on two men talking: A dream inquiry International Review of Qualitative Research 2011 Vol. 4, No. 1: 83-92.

Two nomads writing: A textor's review Qualitative Inquiry 2011 Vol. 17, No. 6: 483-492.

Six characters in search of an author: A qualitative comedy in the making Qualitative Inquiry 2012 (published online 2 May 2012: 10.1177/1077800411425332).