Profile summary
Since my first job in education in 1991, I have worked in a variety of teaching and training roles in the UK and abroad, notably in Europe and the Middle East. Having occupied teaching posts in Further Education, higher education and private sector training and consultancy, my research interests currently draw on this experience and range from pedagogy and creativity in education settings to applications of aspects of continental philosophy to education theory and practice. My teaching responsibilities focus on supervision (PhD, EdD, Masters by Research), research development, and teacher education.
Research and knowledge exchange
I am currently working with partnership research projects including with universities in Palestine and the US. I also lead on a project developing responses to Covid 19 in research methodology as part of CCCU's Interdisciplinary Research Network.
I supervise and chair a wide range of Doctoral and Masters' projects, including:
Doctoral Supervision: recent completions (misc.)
- A Study of Humour Use in Primary School Staff Meetings (2021)
- Internationalization of Higher Education: Lived Experiences of International Students and Perspectives on the Global University (2021)
- GenZ’s perceptions of factors impacting academic attainment and employment outcomes: an exploratory multiphase Q-methodology study
- The Professional Learning of Academics in Higher Education: A Sociomaterial Perspective
- Developing Resilience as a Policy Strategy: The Impact of Policy as Mediated by Ofsted
- A Study of How Middle Leaders in a Secondary School are Making Sense of Their Role in Relation to Teachers’ Professional Development
Doctoral Supervision: current (misc.)
- Glossophobia in foreign language classes: psycho-educational perspectives
- Sustaining neoliberal ideology: regulation, control and evaluation in FE inspection policy
- Early Childhood Education Provision in Algerian Preschool Settings: An Investigation into ideologies
- Assemblage theory and arts education management: a practice-based approach
Teaching and subject expertise
Over the years I have developed subject expertise in:
- MFL (French)
- EFL, ESOL, ESP
- Adult and Professional Learning
- Teacher training and education
- Research development and academc publication
- Doctoral supervision
I am an Honorary National Fireams Instructor (NFI) and a fellow of the HEA. I also write the technical pages of the San Fairy Ann Cycling club magazine, "Milestone".
External activities
My research work has been recognized externally be several national and international bodies. My articles have been solicited for (re)publication here and in France, the US and Australia. I have presented twice at the National Policing Conference based on my work with policing in Jordan and Kent. In 2018, I gave a keynote address at the CCCU Annual Teaching and Learning Conference on Partnership in Learning and the co-creation of knowledge. Other invitations include to Birmingham University to present on Gilles Deleuze, and to undertake research grant assessment for the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. I am currently PI on a research project involving partner universities in three continents and the collator for a research project on the effects of Covid 19.
Publications and research outputs
Selected publications:
Beighton, C. (2021c) Convergent correlationism: analyzing teacher educators’ reflection on professional practice. RP
Beighton, C. (2021b) Biopolitics and lifelong learning: the vitalistic turn in English Further Education discourse, IJLE
Kemiche, Z. & Beighton, C. (2021a) “It’s like very white-winged”: Students’ Perceptions of Racism and Internationalisation in UK Higher Education. JCEPS
Beighton, C. (2020a) “A cumulative and alienating pattern of repeated slights and insults”: Racism, Internationalization and Ethical Vacuity in UK Higher Education. JCEPS
Beighton, C. (2020b) Xenolexia’s Positivity: the Alterity of Academic Writing and its Pedagogical Implications. TiHE
Beighton, C. (2020c) Beyond alienation: spatial implications of teaching and learning academic writing, TiHE
Beighton, C. (2019) Reasoning with Qualitative Data: Using Retroduction with Transcript Data, Sage
Beighton, C. (2018)a A Transversal University? Criticality, Creativity and Catatonia in the Globalised pursuit of Higher Education Excellence- Cole & Bradley, Principles of Transversality in Globalisation and Education, Springer.
Beighton, C. and Revell, L. (2018b) Implementing the Prevent Strategy in England: British Values and the Semiotisation of discourse and practice in Further Education. DSCPE
Beighton, C. (2018c) Critical Ethnography: Investigating practice in Police Firearms Training, Sage
Beighton, C. (2017a) Telling Ghost Stories with the Voice of an Ogre: Deleuze, Identity, and Disruptive Pedagogies, IiTE
Beighton, C. (2017b) Groundhog day? Nietzsche, Deleuze and the eternal return of prosumption in lifelong learning. JCC
Beighton C. (2017c) Closed circuit? Flow, influence and the liquid management of learning and skills, DSCPE
Beighton, C. (2016a) Payback time? Discourses of lack, debt and the moral regulation of teacher education, DSCPE
Beighton, C. (2016b) Expansive learning in Professional Contexts: A Materialist Perspective, London: Palgrave
Beighton, C. (2015) Deleuze and Lifelong Learning: Creativity, Events and Ethics, London: Palgrave