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Dr Antonio (Ono) Olmedo
Associate Professor in Education Policy Sociology
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01392 724943
Baring Court BC210
Baring Court, University of Exeter St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
My academic work has always been directly connected with the area Education Policy Sociology and Social Theory.
My research agenda has been shaped by the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, and in a more direct and personal manner by the contributions and company of Prof. Stephen Ball. More specifically, it focusses on the analysis of neoliberal policy networks, the role of new policy actors, and the enactment of new solutions for social problems, with an emphasis on emerging patterns of privatisation, opportunity and inequalities in education policy. Over the past fifteen years, I have led and participated in several national and international research projects.
I am a 'critical friend' of Education International (global union federation of teachers and other education employees) and school governor at a local primary school. This is a central part of my intellectual and social activity as I strongly believe that academic work should provide tools to understand and facilitate the construction of responses to the challenges posed by social change and social inequalities.
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Research
Research interests
My main research interests fall within the areas of:
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Education policy and social justice: social inequalities and segregation.
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Neoliberal policies and the creation of quasi-markets in education: privatisation, competition and school choice
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The (re)creation of neoliberal subjectivities in education.
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Global policy networks: heterarchies, policy advocacy, philanthropy, and ‘edu-businesses’.
Research projects
2019 - 2020
Project: New landscapes and logics of competition in education: geography, demography and equity in English education policy
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding institution: Research Incentivisation Fund, University of Bristol
Amount: £4030
2018-2019
Project: The multiple facets of philanthropic participation and the reconfiguration of the role of governments in education policy making
Role: Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Carolina Junemann
Funding institution: Education International – Global Federation of Teachers’ Unions
Amount: £10.000
2016-2017
Project: Philanthrocapitalism: policy networks and the role of philanthropic governance in processes of privatisation of and in public education.
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding institution: Education International – Global Federation of Teachers’ Unions
Amount: £15.000
2012-2014
Project: Philanthropy, Business and Education: market-based solutions to educational problems in developing countries.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator with Prof. Stephen Ball
Funding institution: British Academy / Royal Society
Participant institutions: Institute of Education, University of London.
Amount: £62.600