Dr Chris Turner
College: College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Discipline: Education
Department: Graduate School of Education
Research Centre/Unit: Centre for Creativity, Sustainability and Educational Futures
I started my career as a Zoologist and subsequently undertook postgraduate research in animal behaviour followed by a PGCE at the Institute of Education, London University, I taught Biology in a range of schools before obtaining a series of leadership positions ultimately working for over 20 years as a Community College Principal, and then as an Executive Principal, in three different secondary schools. During that time I spent periods of time as a research associate at the National College for School Leadership, lecturing at conferences on Extended Schools, in various capacities for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and on exchange studying community education in Denmark and Australia. In December 2019 I received an EdD for a thesis entitled 'Education as Aesthoecology'.
(Personal website: http://www.aesthoecology.co.uk)