Dr Peter Jones BA, MA, MEd, PhD, PGCE
Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education
Dr Peter Jones is Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.
Prior to joining the Southampton Education School at Southampton University, Peter Jones was an ESRC funded Post-Doctoral Fellow at Bristol University’s Graduate School of Education. He completed his PhD (also ESRC funded) under the supervision of Professors Susan Robertson and Roger Dale within the Research Centre for Globalisation, Education and Societies. His doctoral studies involved the investigation of the role of the European Commission in the governance of education policy in the EU; he completed an ethnographic study within the European Commission and conducted policy analysis in Bulgaria on the eve of its accession to the European Union.
Peter is currently a Lecturer in Post-Compulsory Education and Training and member of the Research Centre for Lifelong and Work Related Learning (LaWRL). He worked for over ten years in London and North Somerset as a teacher of English and Media Studies. During his teaching career, in addition to leading a large English Faculty, he was responsible for whole-school Language in the Curriculum (LINC) policy, the development of a Learning Resources Centre, reform of the 14-19 curriculum and an associate tutor on diverse programmes of teacher education.
Over the last year, Peter has been conducting funded research in the fields of Early School Leaving, Participation in Adult Learning and the role of the EU in reform of Higher and Vocational Education in Central Asia. Peter continues to work in inter-disciplinary collaboration with scholars from Geography, Politics and Sociology. He is currently engaged in an ongoing Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) sponsored project exploring Global Regionalisms, Governance and Higher Education with colleagues from the Universities of Bristol, Pennsylvania, Cape Town, Sydney and Wisconsin, Madison.