Warren Speed

About me:

Warren is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter who is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and University of Exeter to complete his PhD in how school perceive fundamental British values in England.

Warren has extensive educational experience and expertise as a teacher of physics around schools in the North West, North East and South West. Warren also has experience working with teachers as an Equality Officer within a teaching union and still supports teachers and schools who require support and advice around equality matters.

Educational interest lies with, values and moral education, extremism and radicalisation in schools,educational policy and reform, equality in edcuation, citizenship, PSHE and religious education and emergent methodologies.

Research Project:

Research topic: How do teachers' of different schools' around England perceive the Department for Education's 'fundamental British values' agenda?

Since 2014 all school in England are required to actively promote ‘fundamental British values’ in line with the Counter-terrorism and Security Act and Ofsted inspections. Previous research suggests that the introduction of these “values” has led to uncertainty and uneasiness about how they might be actively perceived and promoted.

My research will take a bricolage approach and will:

1. Critically examine the values education discourse in its relation to delivering character and moral education in schools in England.
2. Apply Goodlad’s Curriculum framework and empirically explore how schools interpret and implement ‘fundamental British values’.
3. Apply a critical lens to the current values education agenda to highlight the complexity in enacting values in school system and the implications with Ofsted Inspections.

You can find more information by visiting www.blogs.exeter.ac.uk/TLITP

Research Supervisory team:

1st Supervisor - Professor Rob Freathy (Academic Dean for Students and Dean of the Faculty of Taught Programmes)

2nd Supervisor - Dr Deborah Osberg (Senior Lecturer in Critical Educational Studies)

Professional Development:

2019-01-30

Conferences/Symposiums-Qualitative Research Symposium

2018-11-20

Training and Development-Equality Officer Training (Union)

Equality Officers course to represent teachers of Devon with equality matters in schools.

2018-11-14

Conferences/Symposiums-South West Doctroal Training Partnership (SWDTP) Conference 18

Delegate

2018-08-01

Delivered Training-LGBTI+ Inclusivity in Higher Education for Academics

Delivered a 2 hour bespoke session on using the Ward-Gale model in higher education.

2018-05-11

Conferences/Symposiums-BERA Event: Islam, Prevent and Fundamental British values

Delegate

2018-04-17

Conferences/Symposiums-Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference (Adelaide, Australia)

2018-03-23

Conferences/Symposiums-Graduate School of Education Research Conference

Conference Chair

2018-02-21

Training and Development-Learning to Teach in Higher Education (LTHE) Stage 2

Stage 2 completed (4 full days of training)

2017-11-08

Conferences/Symposiums-South West Doctroal Training Partnership (SWDTP) Conference 17

Delegate

2017-09-18

Training and Development-Prevent, Welfare and Freedom of Speech

University staff training

2017-07-10

Conferences/Symposiums-Children, Young People, their Care and Education Critical issues in interdisciplinary research and practic

Edgehill University - Lancasher

Delegate

2017-03-24

Conferences/Symposiums-Graduate School of Education Research Conference 2017

Committee Member - Call for Papers