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Martin LawnProfessorial Research FellowEmail: m.lawn@btinternet.com Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6251 Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6239 |
Biographical details
I am a researcher in CES.
Until recently, I was the Academic Secretary, British Educational Research
Association. I have been a Professorial Research Fellow, School of Social
Sciences, Cardiff University; a Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh and a Professor of Education,
School of Education, University of Birmingham.
I am the Editor of the European Educational Research Journal, official Journal
of the European Educational Research Association.
Current and recent research
2006-2011: Knowledge and Policy: The role
of knowledge in the construction and regulation of Health and Education
policy in Europe: convergences and specificities among nations and sectors
(Know+Pol) (European Commission)
2006-2009: Fabricating Quality In European Education (FabQ)
(ESF/ESRC ‘EUROCORES’)
2006-2008: A Scottish School of Educational Research 1925-1950’,
ESRC 17636 Co-Director with Professor Ian Deary, Psychology, University
of Edinburgh
Selected papers and publications
2008An Atlantic Crossing? The work of the International Examination Inquiry, its researchers, methods and influence, Symposium Books |
2009Modelling the Future: Exhibitions and the Materiality of Education, Symposium Books |
 2005 Materiality of Schooling - design, technology, objects, routines, Oxford: Symposium Books |
 2002 Fabricating Europe - The Formation of an Education Space, Kluwer, London |
 1998 Silences and Images; social histories of classrooms, Peter Lang, New York [ed] |
1996 Modern Times? Work, Professionalism and Citizenship in Teaching, Falmer Press: London |
Soft Governance and the Learning Spaces of Europe in Comparative European
Politics, Rethinking European Spaces, 4(2), July 2006 |
The Institute as Network: the Scottish Council for Research in Education
as a local and international phenomenon in the 1930s, Paedagogica
Historica Volume 40, Nos. 5 & 6, October 2004 |
Constructing a European Policy Space in Educational Governance: the
Role of Transnational Policy Actors, European Educational
Research Journal, 1(2), 2002 |
Imagining a Project: Networks, Discourses and Spaces – Towards a New
Archaeology of Urban Education, Paedagogica Historica XXV,
2, pp.381-393, 2000 |