Dr Rob Smith
Rob Smith is a Professor of Education at Birmingham City University and currently the Director of the Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE). Rob positions a concern with social justice at the centre of his work. He has researched and written extensively in collaboration with further and higher education practitioners.
His body of work explores the impact of funding and marketisation on education. Significant research with Vicky Duckworth focuses on further education as a space for transformative teaching and learning. He has also developed a strand of research relating to race and decolonial thought and has been involved in That’s Me, an Office for Students funded project looking to remove the barriers to doctoral research for students from global majority backgrounds. Recent writing includes Rethinking and Reviving Subject English written and edited with Pete Bennett and Lou Lambert.