Dr Christian Beighton

Research Projects

• 'An exploration of the experiences and perceptions of a group of Algerian Female students; a price worth paying?'. Researcher(s): Miss Moukha Dehilis. Supervisor(s): Dr Anne Chant, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A comparative, qualitive study exploring male early years practitioner’s and parent’s constructions of ‘caring masculinities’ and how this influences men’s care practices, professional identities and pedagogies. Researcher(s): Mr Adam Parker-Steed. Supervisor(s): Dr Marios Kostas, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A performative analysis of primary school governance: labour, costs and repair work. Researcher(s): Mrs Lacey Austin. Supervisor(s): Dr Kate Smith, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A Study of Humour Use in Primary School Staff Meetings. Researcher(s): Mr Justin Smith. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Professor Lynn Revell. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• An exploration of a HE learning experience: undergraduate students researching with children as co-constructors of knowledge and the impact on identity. Researcher(s): Mrs Kerry Holman. Supervisor(s): Dr Karen Vincent, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• An exploration of agency in the stories of dual qualified cross-phase teachers (14-19) at a time of curriculum reform. Researcher(s): Dr ALISON COGGER. Supervisor(s): Dr Judy Durrant, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Children's perceptions of classroom displays. Researcher(s): Mrs Caroline Howard-Jones. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Professor Adrian Holliday. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Isabel Fischer. Supervisor(s): Dr Lyn Haynes, Professor Lynn Revell, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Paul Forbes. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Professor Lynn Revell. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Phil Stone. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Ruth Rogers. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Kate Cable. Supervisor(s): Dr Anne Chant, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Seamus Murphy. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Professor Lynn Revell. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Exploration of art and pedagogy in further education. Researcher(s): Miss Elwina Robinson. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Magz Hall. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Explore ‘mature; lifelong learner identities, individual wellbeing and academic engagement of ‘older’ undergraduates. Researcher(s): Mrs Sherralyn Simpson. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Christopher Anderson. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Fertile Ground of Negative Spaces: Material Methodologies for (Education) Leadership.. Researcher(s): Ms Joanna Townshend. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Peter Gregory. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Global Trends, Local Contexts: Ideological Positions and their Impact on Early Childhood Education Practices in Algeria. Researcher(s): Miss Bochra Tari. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Professor Berry Billingsley. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL UNIVERSITY. Researcher(s): Dr ZAHRA KEMICHE. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Christopher Anderson. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Pedagogies of English as a Second Foreign Language in Algerian Middle Schools: A Sociocultural Perspective. Researcher(s): Miss Souaad Snoussi. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Christopher Anderson. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Recovering Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934): Genre and Geography. Researcher(s): Miss Hayley Smith. Supervisor(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• School support for looked after and previously looked after children. Researcher(s): Mrs Holly Carter. Supervisor(s): Dr Ruth Rogers, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The politics of quality improvement: exploring the complexity of teaching and learning practices in Further Education.. Researcher(s): Dr ZAHID NAZ. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Ruth Rogers. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The readability of English textbooks used in the Algerian middle schools.. Researcher(s): Mrs Sarra Hadjeres. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Gemma Van Vuuren-Cassar. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Use of humour in the secondary school classroom. Researcher(s): Mr Anton Evans. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Dr Kevin Balchin. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• Regulating truths, indeterminate practice and ways of being: a biopolitics of Professional Standards in UK Higher Education Beighton, C., Naz, Z.: Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Dis/placing teacher identity: performing the ‘brutal forms of formalities’ in English Further Education Naz, Z., Beighton, C., (20 Jun 2024, 02 Sep 2024): Informa UK Limited. [Journal article]
• Trainee teachers and academic literacy: process, pedagogy and practice Beighton, C., (07 Feb 2024): Taylor and Francis Online. [Journal article]
• The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education Beighton, Christian, Naz, Z., (04 Apr 2023): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Three policy problems: Biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration Beighton, C., Powell, H., (17 Apr 2023): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• "It’s like very white-winged”: students’ perceptions of the image and reality of Internationalisation in UK Higher Education Kemiche, Z., Beighton, C., (01 May 2021): Institute for Education Policy Studies. [Journal article]
• 0 Sapere Aude Beighton, C.. [Lecture]
• Biopolitics and lifelong learning: the vitalistic turn in English further education discourse Beighton, Christian, (22 Aug 2021): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Convergent correlationism: analyzing teacher educators’ reflection on professional practice Beighton, Christian, (05 Sep 2021): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Sapere Aude - enlightenment values and academic cancel culture Beighton, C.. [Conference or workshop item]
• Sapere Aude: Enlightenment ideas, values and slogans and academic cancel culture Beighton, C.. [Conference paper]
• Using photovoice in Participatory educational research Barry, W., Beighton, C., SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 1 : SAGE. [Book chapter]
• “A cumulative and alienating pattern of repeated slights and insults”: racism, internationalization and ethical vacuity in UK Higher Education Beighton, C., (Dec 2020): Institute for Education Policy Studies. [Journal article]
• Conflict, collaboration and counterpoint: analysing iterative research techniques within the research development narrative. Beighton, C., Cobb, W., Welland, H., European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA). [Conference paper]
• Narrative of, about, and for troubled times: struggles for the good and beautiful and Pier Paulo Pasolini’s Salò Beighton, C.. [Conference or workshop item]
• Not just playing catch-up:an agenda for social learning under COVID19 Beighton, C.. [Conference paper]
• Researching academic writing: a retroductive approach Beighton, C.. [Conference paper]
• Xenolexia’s positivity: the alterity of academic writing and its pedagogical implications Beighton, C., (18 Sep 2020): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Blow up dolls and a hammer: is there a place for social learning on the National Firearms Instructors Course? Beighton, C., Heath, A., (15 May 2019): Police Fire Arms Officers Association. [Journal article]
• Publish or perish? Using iterative research techniques to trouble the research development narrative. Beighton, C., Cobb, W., Welland, H.. [Conference or workshop item]
• A transversal university? criticality, creativity and catatonia in the globalised pursuit of higher education excellence. Beighton, C., (27 Jul 2018), Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education: Springer. [Book chapter]
• Beyond alienation: spatial implications of teaching and learning academic writing Beighton, C., (04 Dec 2018): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Critical ethnography: investigating practice in police firearms training Beighton, C., (2018), SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2: SAGE. [Book chapter]
• Criticality, creativity... & catatonia Beighton, C., Annual Teaching and Learning Conference 2018. [Conference paper]
• Learning landscapes: prehensions of space in film and their pedagogical implications Beighton, C., Landscape, Space and Place: Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Conference. [Conference paper]
• Pedagogies of academic writing in teacher education: from epistemology to practice and back again Beighton, C., Blackman, A., (20 Jun 2017): Universitat Politècnica de València. [Journal article]
• A question of degree? An academic future for firearms officers Beighton, C., Doody, G., (29 Nov 2016): Police Fire Arms Officers Association. [Journal article]
• Expansive learning in police firearms training: developing the interface between HE and professional learning Beighton, C., Poma, S., Leonard, V., (26 Oct 2016), Change and Reform in Law Enforcement: Old and New Efforts from Across the Globe. Abingdon: CRC Press. [Book chapter]
• Expansive learning in professional contexts: a materialist perspective Beighton, C., (Sep 2016): Palgrave Macmillan. [Book]
• Groundhog day? Nietzsche, Deleuze and the eternal return of prosumption in lifelong learning Beighton, C., (07 Jan 2016): SAGE. [Journal article]
• Moving on? Speed, flow and the liquefaction of lifelong learning Beighton, C., (31 Mar 2016), Lifelong Learning: Concepts, Benefits and Challenges. USA: Nova Science Publishers. [Book chapter]
• Second language, literacy and teaching: teacher development to support the needs of low educated learners Delaney, J., Beighton, C., LESLLA symposium 2016. [Conference paper]
• Telling ghost stories with the voice of an ogre Deleuze, identity, and disruptive pedagogies Beighton, C.: California Council on Teacher Education. [Journal article]
• Closed circuit? Flow, influence and the liquid management of learning and skills Beighton, C., (29 Dec 2015): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Deleuze and lifelong learning: creativity, events and ethics Beighton, C., (04 Mar 2015): Palgrave Macmillan. [Book]
• Mapping diagrams in research supervision: paths through conflicting writing practices Beighton, C.. [Conference or workshop item]
• A risky business? Taking chances in AFO training Beighton, C., Poma, S., (Apr 2014). [Journal article]
• Expansive learning in firearms training: the HE / professional learning interface Beighton, C., Poma, S., Leonard, V., (Sep 2014): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Payback time? Discourses of lack, debt and the moral regulation of teacher education Beighton, C.. [Journal article]
• A quiet revolution: expansive learning in firearms training Beighton, C., Poma, S., Leonard, V., The Fourth Annual Conference of the Higher Education Forum for Learning and Development in Policing (POLCON 4). [Conference paper]
• Assessing the mess: challenges to assemblage theory and teacher education Beighton, C., (07 Nov 2013): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Creativity and learning events Beighton, C., Chaos, Creativity, and Connections in Social Science Research. [Conference paper]
• Creativity in lifelong learning: events and ethics Beighton, C.. [PhD Thesis]
• Open Range – what happens when firearms training turns into Higher Education? Beighton, C., Poma, S., (Nov 2013). [Journal article]
• Professionalism inside-out: expanding the interface between professionalism and learning Beighton, C., Poma, S., Critical Perspectives on Professional Learning. [Conference paper]
• Beyond the Panopticon: changing gazes in ESOL Beighton, C., (2012): NATECLA (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults). [Journal article]
• Dosse, F., Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari – Biographie Croisée Beighton, C., (2012): University of Warwick, Department of Philosophy. [Journal article]
• Qu’ en est –il de la subversion en 2011? Que faire d’un(e) air(e) du temps? Beighton, C.. [Journal article]
• Criticality, clinicality and connectivity in education Beighton, C., 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference. [Conference paper]
• Joe Hughes (2008) Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation, New York: Continuum. Beighton, C., (Nov 2010): Edinburgh University Press. [Journal article]