Dr Tony Leach

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Dr Tony Leach

Email address:

T.Leach@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education

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http://www.tonyleach.com

Biography

Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Biography:

Prior to joining the university in 2003, I was a schoolteacher, and then an independent education consultant working on local education authority projects in schools and colleges, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. My doctoral research, involving an investigation into the changing individual-organisation learning relationship in SMEs, was completed in 2003. Nowadays, as well as being a supervisor of undergraduate and post-graduate research,I also research and write on the topics of schools as research-informed learning communities, and graduate employment and career experiences.

Qualifications:

BA,MSc(Ed),PhD,Dip.GC,Cert.Ed,FHEA

My Latest

Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2019) Satisfied with what? Contested assumptions about student expectations and satisfaction in higher education. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 24 (2-3). pp. 155-172.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2018) Democracy in the classroom. Power and Education, 10 (2). pp. 181-194.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2017) 'Cooling out the marks': the ideology and politics of vocational education in an age of austerity. Research in Post Compulsory Education, 22 (2). pp. 221-236.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2016) 'It seems at the moment my career is dependent on factors outside of my control.' Reflections on graduates' experiences of employment and career enactment in an era of economic uncertainty and austerity. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 45 (2). pp. 188-198.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2016) 'Cooling out the marks' the ideology and politics of vocational education in an age of austerity. In: Association for Research in Post-compulsory Education 2nd International Research Conference, 8-10 July 2016, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. (Submitted)
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 and Crisp, Andy (2016) ‘Students don’t always tell teachers the truth very often, do they.’ Reflections on the implications when teachers and students collaborate to investigate teaching practice. London Review of Education, 14 (3). pp. 54-64.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2015) Graduates'experiences and perceptions of career enactment: identity, transitions, personal agency and emergent career direction. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 20 (1). pp. 50-63.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 and Lewis, Ellie (2012) Children’s experiences during circle-time: a call for research-informed debate. Pastoral Care in Education, 31 (1). pp. 43-52.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2010) Knowledge creation and deployment in the small, but growing, enterprise and the psychological contract. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 15 (3). pp. 329-344.
Leach, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1021-6361 (2009) Maybe I can fly: nurturing personal and collective learning in professional learning communities. Pastoral Care in Education, 27 (4). pp. 313-323.

My Most Viewed

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1	Children’s experiences during circle-time: a call for research-informed debate	170	610
2	Democracy in the classroom	96	100
3	‘Students don’t always tell teachers the truth very often, do they.’ Reflections on the implications when teachers and students collaborate to investigate teaching practice.	78	64
4	Graduates'experiences and perceptions of career enactment: identity, transitions, personal agency and emergent career direction	73	77
5	'It seems at the moment my career is dependent on factors outside of my control.' Reflections on graduates' experiences of employment and career enactment in an era of economic uncertainty and austerity	66	78
6	Researching graduates’ lived experiences of vocational learning	59	39
7	Maybe I can fly: nurturing personal and collective learning in professional learning communities	55	43
8	Knowledge creation and deployment in the small, but growing, enterprise and the psychological contract	53	30
9	'Cooling out the marks' the ideology and politics of vocational education in an age of austerity	52	0
10	'Cooling out the marks': the ideology and politics of vocational education in an age of austerity	31	39