Professor Dennis Hayes

Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby and a visiting professor in the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University.

He has been a columnist for FE Focus in the Times Educational Supplement and writes regularly for the national press on educational issues and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Times Higher Education magazine.

In 2006-2007 he was the first (joint) President of the University and College Union (UCU) the largest post-compulsory education union in the world. A TES profile at this time said: "He is thin, energetic, elliptical, tense and intense, a man who avoids easy conclusions..."

He is the Hon. Secretary of the Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers (SCETT) and since 2004 he has been the convenor of the Institute of Ideas Education Forum.

He is well-known throughout higher education as the founder of the campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF).

Dennis edited a special edition of the British Journal of Educational Studies on Academic Freedom in 2009, to which he contributed an paper 'Academic Freedom and the Diminished Subject'.

As a columnist for The Free Society, many of his articles are about academic freedom and free speech. His most recent article is on Question Time and the BNP: 'No Platform' is No Platformed: but so is debate. Another popular article is Academic freedom means free speech and no “buts”

His book, co-authored with Kathryn Ecclestone, is The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, Routledge (2008) has been described as ‘one of the most important books to have been written in at least the last twenty years in that crucial area where philosophy, policy and practice coincide’

Selected on-line papers:

A post-publication reflection on our critique of therapeutic education, from the Beyond Current Horizons project Affect: 'knoweldge, communication, creativity and emotion'

For students of education looking for original ideas, Dennis recommends the short lively and readable articles in The Routledge Guide to Key Debates in Education (2004)

'Stressed' and anxious trainee teachers might like my irreverent look at teaching techniques: Wise up and take it easy

Dennis edited a special edition of the British Journal of Educational Studies on Academic Freedom in 2009, to which he contributed an paper 'Academic Freedom and the Diminished Subject'.

As a columnist for The Free Society, many of his articles are about academic freedom and free speech. His most recent article is on Question Time and the BNP: 'No Platform' is No Platformed: but so is debate. Another popular article is Academic freedom means free speech and no “buts”

His book, co-authored with Kathryn Ecclestone, is The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, Routledge (2008) has been described as ‘one of the most important books to have been written in at least the last twenty years in that crucial area where philosophy, policy and practice coincide’

Selected on-line papers:

**A post-publication reflection on our critique of therapeutic education, from the Beyond Current Horizons project Affect: 'knoweldge, communication, creativity and emotion'**

For students of education looking for original ideas, Dennis recommends the short lively and readable articles in The Routledge Guide to Key Debates in Education (2004)

'Stressed' and anxious trainee teachers might like my irreverent look at teaching techniques: Wise up and take it easy