Professor David Hall

About me:

David Hall is an education researcher with a particular interest in large scale educational reform programmes and their effects upon educational institutions and those who work and study within them. This interest is reflected in research he has undertaken in the school, FE and university sectors in a variety of contexts both across Europe and the Global South. His research has been funded by agencies including the Economic and Social Research Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the European Union, the Educational Endowment Foundation and the Department for International Development.

Professor Hall’s teaching mainly focuses upon education policy and leadership. He has been responsible for developing a series of large and successful MA programmes and modules targeted at both UK and international education professionals. His doctoral students have completed theses on topics including the rise of consultants in English schools, the classed identities of teachers, changing teacher professionalism, leadership and cultural change in Indonesian universities and mediating policy change in the English FE sector.

Prior to joining the university sector Professor Hall spent twelve years as a teacher of Economics, Politics and Business Studies in a variety of schools, VI Form Colleges and FE colleges both in the UK and overseas. Most of this time was devoted to teaching, but he also assumed a range of leadership and management responsibilities, wrote a best selling textbook series and participated actively in a number of national curriculum development projects.

Professor Hall was Head of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter from 2017-2020 and was previously the founding Head of the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester.