Prof Brian Hudson

Biography

I am Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex. Currently I am Chair of the Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) Network, Council Member and Chair of the Publications Committee of the College of Teachers, Associate Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies and represent the Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) on the Council of the World Education Research Association (WERA). I was Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Dundee from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that, I was Professor for ICT and Learning in the Department of interactive Media and Learning at Umeå University in Sweden and Professor of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. Before entering higher education I was a secondary school teacher of mathematics for fifteen years working in comprehensive schools, including five years as Head of Mathematics in an 11-18 high school. In 1995 I completed my PhD on ‘Group Work with Multimedia in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom’. I was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2004 and my associated project focus was on ‘Developing a European Open and Flexible Networked Learning Community at Doctoral Level’. This was carried out alongside involvement in the EC funded ‘European Doctorate in Teaching and Teacher Education’ (EUDORA) at that time. In 2006 I led the establishment of the EERA Network on Didactics, Learning and Teaching and was the main convenor until 2012. In 2007 I was a founding member of the TEPE Network, established as the successor to the Thematic Network for Teacher Education in Europe (TNTEE) that had been set up in1996. The TEPE network has held conferences every year since that time throughout Europe, the latest to take place in May 2013 at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with the CICERO Learning Network on the theme of  ‘Learning Spaces with Technology in Teaching and Teacher Education’. 

Role

I am Head of the School of Education and Social Work and a member of the Senior Management Group of the University.

Community and Business

I am a Council Member and Chair of the Publications Committee of the College of Teachers http://www.collegeofteachers.ac.uk 

Mathematics Education, ICT and Learning, Curriculum & Didactics and Teacher Education Policy

Recent projects

2011-12, Principal Supervisor, Visiting PhD study on Investigating Academic Research Culture in Teacher Education Institutions in Pakistan, Bushra Naoreen, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. 

2011-12, Research Commission, Envisioning a Positive Future for the Chartered Teachers Scotland, The Association of Chartered Teachers Scotland (ACTS).

2010-12, Principal Investigator, Developing Mathematical Thinking in the Primary Classroom, Scottish Government.

2009-12, Principal Investigator, Research Collaboration with Umeå School of Education, Umeå University.

2011, Consultant to The Teaching Council for Ireland.        

2010-11, Principal Supervisor, An empirical study of peace perceptions of prospective teachers in UK and Pakistan: Meeting Challenges of Terrorism for Pakistan, Post Doctoral Research Study by Dr Muhammad Imran Yousuf with Dr Ian Barron, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan.

2010-11, Principal Supervisor, Post-doctoral research study, The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia.

2007-11, Principal Applicant: SPIDER, Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions and University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC) National E-learning Centre (NeLC) Project, Unsupervised summative e-assessment for higher order skills of students in large groups 2007-2010, PhD study supervisor. http://www.spidercenter.org/

2007-10, Principal Applicant (UMU): Educational Repositories Network (EdReNe), eContentplus 2006 call (OJ 2006 - C172/24), Co-ordinator, Umeå University, Management Board member. http://edrene.org/

2008-09, Principal Applicant: Activboards for Active Learning and Global Understanding in Elementary School Mathematics? Wallenberg Global Learning Networks School and University Partnerships initiative in collaboration with Rösjöskolan, Stockholm, East Paolo Alto Academy, USA and Stanford University, USA. (Planning Grant for 2008-09).

2008-09, Principal Applicant (UMU) and Leader of Work Packages 2&8: The New Technologies of E-Learning and Conducting Action Research, EC Transversal Project: Implementing e-Learning 2.0 in everyday learning processes in higher and vocational education (eJUMP 2.0).

2008-09, Co-applicant and Team member EC FP7 research project European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI) co-ordinated by the European Educational Research Association (EERA)

2007-09, Principal Applicant and Project Leader: Process-based assessment through blended learning, Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education (NSHU). http://parable-project.iml.umu.se/  

2008, Principal Applicant for establishment of ICT, Media and Learning Research Centre, supported Umeå University and The Baltic Group, (2009-14)

2007-08, Co-Applicant: eLene-TLC: eLearning network for the development of a Teaching and Learning service Centre, eLearning Project, Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission, 2007-08, Evaluation Work Package Leader. http://www.elene-tlc.net/Home

2007-08, Co-Applicant: Podcasting in School Project, (with Bergqvist, Lithner and Lindwall), funded by Rektorsakadamien, School Improvement Agency, Apple Inc. and Faculty of Teacher Education, Umeå University.

Currently I am supervising on the MA in International Education and also on doctroal degree programmes. At the present time, I am co-supervising the following EdD Studies:

Simon Quigley, Aligning Mathematical Pedagogical Practice to Exploit the Characteristic Behaviours of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to Enhance Learning, (with Dr. Louise Gazeley)

Simon is a teacher of mathematics in a special needs school that caters for students categorised as having Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD).

Peter Wright, Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice: Translating Theories into Practice, University of Sussex (with Dr. Naureen Durrani).

Peter is a mathematics teacher educator at the Institute of Education, University of London.

In addition I am supervising the following PhD study at the University of Tallinn, Estonia:

Mart Laanpere, Pedagogy-driven Design of Virtual Learning Environments.

Mart is Head of the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Tallinn.

Student Consultation

Contact Jana Valekova hosc@esw.sussex.ac.uk 

Hudson, Brian (2012) Chartered teachers matter: envisioning their future as leaders of learning. Technical Report. Association of Chartered Teachers Scotland (ACTS), Dunfermline.

Harford, Judith, Hudson, Brian and Niemi, Hannele, eds. (2012) Quality assurance and teacher education: international challenges and expectations. Rethinking Education, 6 . Peter Lang , Oxford. ISBN 9783034302500

Usoof, Hakim Ali, Hudson, Brian and Wikramanayake, Gihan Nilendra (2012) Technology enhanced assessment for learning in a distance education IT degree programme in Sri Lanka. The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, 5 (1). ISSN 1800-4156

Hudson, Brian and Meyer, Meirnet A, eds. (2011) Beyond fragmentation: didactics, learning and teaching in Europe. Barbara Budrich, Portland, Oregon. ISBN 9783866493872

Hudson, Brian (2011) Didactical design for technology enhanced learning. In: Beyond fragmentation: didactics, learning and teaching in Europe. Barbara Budrich, Opladen and Farmington Hills, pp. 223-238. ISBN 978866493872

Hudson, Brian and Meyer, Meinert A (2011) Introduction: Finding common ground beyond fragmentation. In: Beyond fragmentation: didactics, learning and teaching in Europe. Barbara Budrich, Portland, Oregon, pp. 9-28. ISBN 978866493872

Hudson, Brian (2011) Reclaiming scholarship as an integrating dimension of academic work for the impact of research on teaching and learning in higher education. Scottish Educational Review, 43 (1). pp. 24-40. ISSN 0141-9072

Henderson, Sheila and Hudson, Brian (2011) What is subject content knowledge in mathematics? On the implications for student teachers' competence and confidence in teaching mathematics. In: Developing quality cultures in teacher education : expanding horizons in relation to quality assurance. Tallinn University, Tallinn, pp. 175-194. ISBN 9789949290239

Usoof, Hakim, Hudson, Brian and Lindgren, Eva (2010) Plagiarism: Catalysts and Not so Simple Solutions. In: Cases on Professional Distance Education Degree Programs and Practices: Successes, Challenges and Issues. IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA. ISBN 978-16-1520-688-9 (In Press)

Hudson, Brian (2009) Didaktik design for technology supported learning. In: Perspektiven der Didaktik: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 139-157. ISBN 9783531154947

Hudson, Brian (2008) Didactical design research for teaching as a design profession. In: Teacher education policy in Europe: a voice of higher education institutions. Monographs on Journal of research in teacher education . University of Umeå, Umeå, pp. 345-365. ISBN 9789172646001

Hudson, Brian (2008) Learning mathematically as social practice in a workplace setting. In: New directions for situated cognition in mathematics education. Mathematics Education Library, 45 . Springer US, New York, pp. 287-301. ISBN 9780387715773

Hudson, Brian and Zgaga, Pavel, eds. (2008) Teacher education policy in Europe: a voice of higher education institutions. Monographs on Journal of research in teacher education, ISSN: 1651-0127 . Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Umeå, Umeå. ISBN 9789172646001

Hudson, Brian (2008) A didactical design perspective on teacher presence in an international online learning community. Tidskrift för lärarutbildning och forskning: Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 15 (3-4). pp. 93-112. ISSN 1404-7659