Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
Sarah Hayes is Professor of Education and Research Lead, in the School of Education at Bath Spa University, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). Previously Sarah was Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Education Observatory Research Centre, at University of Wolverhampton (2018-2022) and a Unit of Assessment Coordinator for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for Education.
Sarah is an Honorary Professor at Aston University, where she worked between 2009-2018. Her roles as a Senior Lecturer at Aston included Programme Director for Aston’s PG Diploma and Masters in Education. Prior to this, Sarah taught Sociology in the School of Languages and Social Sciences (LSS) at Aston and has also taught Computing in the Business School at University of Worcester. Sarah's research into Digital Society and Education intersects across Sociology, Technology, Education and Linguistics. Sarah is the author of The Labour of Words in Higher Education (2019) and Postdigital Positionality (2021) , Co-Editor of Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies and an Associate Editor of the Springer Journal Postdigital Science and Education. Sarah has recently led 2 EPSRC funded projects: ‘Data and disadvantage: taking a regional approach towards Human Data Interaction (HDI) to inform local and national digital skills policies’ (2020-2021) and ‘Extending Human Data Interaction (HDI) theory in partnership with the cross-sector community and international interdisciplinary researchers’(2021-2022). Impact from these projects is discussed in this funder showcase and is realised also through the publication of this edited book (2023):
Sarah has edited several Special Issues and published many peer reviewed articles, books and chapters. Sarah has also published several Wonkhe articles and was commissioned by UK Parliament (2017-2018) to encourage stronger engagement of university lecturers with Parliamentary resources. She was commissioned too by the UK Quality Assurance Agency (2015) to write on MOOCs and Quality and achieved a SEDA/Jisc Institutional Change Leader Award (2015) for student partnership. Sarah has supervised both PhD and EdD students to completion, examined 7 doctorates and chaired 9 vivas.
My research interests include:
PhD Sociology, Aston University
MSc Educational Research, Lancaster University
PG Cert in Higher Education, University of Worcester
HNC in IT Management, University of Worcester
BA (Hons) Art and Design, Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh
Programme Director for ME.d and PG Dip, CLIPP
Teaching on PG Cert for HE
Popular Culture
Technology and Social Theory
Research Methods
Since 2018, Joint Unit of Assessment Coordinator for the University of Wolverhampton Education submission to REF.
Chair of Learning Technologies Management Group (LTMG) between 2014-2016
Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy
British Sociological Association
American Educational Research Association
Vice Chair of Heads of E-Learning Forum (HELF) in 2017
External Examiner , Buckinghamshire New University
2017 → …
External Examiner, Birmingham City University
Nov 2015 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Correction › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Hayes, S. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Other distinction
Hayes, S. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Hayes, S. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Hayes, S. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Hayes, S. (Visiting lecturer)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Hayes, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Hayes, S. (Visiting lecturer)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution