Profile summary
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 currently focus on supervision (PhD, EdD, Masters by Research), research development, and teacher education.
Research and knowledge exchange
Doctoral Supervision: recent completions (misc.)
- 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.)
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
- Doctoral supervision
I am an honorary Police Firearms Instructor and fellow of the HEA. I 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 work has been solicited for (re)publication here and in France, the US and Australia. I have presented twice at the National Policing Conference, trained police officers in Jordan, and in 2016, was made an Honorary Firearms Instructor with Kent Police. 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; to join a conference panel at the American Education Research Association conference and, in 2020, undertake a research grant assessment for the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. I am currently PI on a research project involving three partner universities in Palestine and collator for a research project on the effects of Covid 19.
Publications and research outputs
- Beighton, C. (2020) “A cumulative and alienating pattern of repeated slights and insults”: Racism, Internationalization and Ethical Vacuity in UK Higher Education. Jl. of Critical Education Policy Studies 18 (3).
- Beighton, C. (2020) Xenolexia’s Positivity: the Alterity of Academic Writing and its Pedagogical Implications. Teaching in Higher Education: Critical perspectives : https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1819227
- Beighton, C. (2020) Beyond alienation: spatial implications of teaching and learning academic writing, Teaching in Higher Education, 25:2, 205-222
- Beighton, C. (2019) Reasoning with Qualitative Data: Using Retroduction with Transcript Data, Sage Research Methods Datasets.
- Beighton, C. (2018) A Transversal University? Criticality, Creativity and Catatonia in the Globalised pursuit of Higher Education Excellence in Cole, D. R. and Bradley, J.P.N. Principles of Transversality in Globalisation and Education, Singapore: Springer. Pp. 47-66
- Beighton, C. and Revell, L. (2018) Implementing the Prevent Strategy in England: British Values and the Semiotisation of discourse and practice in Further Education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2018.1508422
- Beighton, C. (2018) Critical Ethnography: Investigating practice in Police Firearms Training, Sage Research Methods Case Studies.
- Beighton, C. (2017) Telling Ghost Stories with the Voice of an Ogre: Deleuze, Identity, and Disruptive Pedagogies, Issues in Teacher Education Special Issue. 26 (3) 111-127
- Beighton, C. (2017) Groundhog day? Nietzsche, Deleuze and the eternal return of prosumption in lifelong learning. Journal of Consumer Culture, 17 (3): 695-712
- Beighton C. (2017) Closed circuit? Flow, influence and the liquid management of learning and skills, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38 (4): 603-618
- Beighton, C. (2016) Payback time? Discourses of lack, debt and the moral regulation of teacher education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37:1, 30-42
- Beighton, C. (2016) Expansive learning in Professional Contexts: A Materialist Perspective, London: Palgrave
- Beighton, C. (2015) Deleuze and Lifelong Learning: Creativity, Events and Ethics, London: Palgrave