As Senior Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) at The Cass School of Education I am involved in developing and teaching across modules on both the full time and part time PGCE PCET and the Cert Ed. My work also involves working collaboratively with local partners and providers of post compulsory education both within our consortium colleges and within London as a whole where trainees are placed for their teaching practice. I have an interest in podcasting and in the use of emergent technologies as a tool for research, mentor training and capturing the learners’ voice. My research interests also include a commitment to participatory and inclusive action research as a means to develop teacher professionalism and practice.

My BSc in sociology was awarded at Kingston University and my PGCE (social science 11 – 18 age range) was awarded at the Institute of Education, University of London. Since then I have taught both sociology and psychology for 14 years in secondary schools and Sixth Form Colleges in Surrey, Kent and London. I come to the position at UEL as an experienced sociology textbook writer, as well as a successful deliverer of post-16 sociology INSET courses across the country.

I have worked in the multi-cultural, urban environment of Newham in east London for eight years in the Post Compulsory sector as teacher of sociology, social science manager of a large Sixth Form College and as a cross-college manager responsible for Teaching and Learning. In 2007 I completed managing a ‘highly commended’ Beacon Award action research project in transferable teaching skills. As the teaching and learning development manager of a large, diverse Sixth Form College I managed a team of Advanced Teaching Practitioners, as well as being awarded the status myself, coordinated and delivered action research projects and was responsible for the coordination of e-learning.

• UEL Teaching Fellow, awarded 2011.
• I am the Cass School of Education’s Leader in Learning and Teaching (LiLT)
• Programme Leader PGCE/Cert Ed (including both in-service and pre-service provision)  PCET – Post-Compulsory Education and Training.
• e-learning for the PGCE/Cert Ed PCET team.

See my blog at: http://blog.uelconnect.org.uk/warren/

Follow me @ Twitter for learning and teaching in the PCET sector @ – allthingspcet@twitter

Follow me @ Twitter for mentoring support in the PCET sector @ - pcetmentor@twitter

Follow me @Twitter for the Special Edition of Professional Development in Education (see below) @ PdiEjournal@twitter

Co-author of text ‘Successful Teaching 14 – 19: Theory, Practice and Reflection’ (Sage) with Gerry Czerniawski a colleague from the Secondary teacher training team at the Cass School of Education. This was published in April 2010. See here.

Co-Editor of Emerald’s ‘The Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide’. See here. (Published September 2011).

Co-Author of text ‘Teaching Teenagers: A Toolbox for Engaging and Motivating Learners’ (Sage, Published September 2011). See here for more details.

Journals

Along with Professor Jean Murray (also Cass School of Education, UEL) I am the Guest Editor of a forthcoming Special Edition of the Routledge journal Professional Development in Education (PDiE) – the journal of the International Professional Development Association (IPDA). See the Routledge website  for this Special Edition here. The call for papers is for the edition ‘Using Emerging Technologies to Develop Professional Learning’. An audio call for papers is available here.

Along with my colleague Gerry Czerniawski I am the Guest Editor of a forthcoming Special Edition of Management in Education (MiE) a Sage journal of BELMAS. This special edition will look at issues related to Student Voice.

On-line resources:

Follow this link to ‘Warren’s PCET Podcasting Pages'

This Weblog houses my PCET-related podcasts and blogs on the role of podcasts and podcasting for teaching and learning. The Weblog also includes the PCET student Twitter feed with useful links.

Other interests include:

• The use of podcasts as both a teaching tool and as a means for teacher reflection and evaluation;
• The use of action research as a reflexive tool within the post compulsory sector – in particular within the local urban, diverse environment of east London;
•  (Along with a colleague, Martin Belgrove of UEL Connect) I have been awarded a grant of £5K from LSIS, funded via LONCETT, for a short-term research project, "Who will mentor the mentors? E-mentoring support to build capacity and achieve sustainability." This action research project has created dedicated electronic ‘video blog’ provision for mentoring and mentors for the UEL PCET partnership. This research seeks to establish a (virtual) community of practice and then seeks to transform reflection and practice within the community to enable mentors to better understand their role and to better support trainees.
• Currently working towards EdD – provisional title of research: “Tinkering with the tools of their trade: A proposed qualitative study of changing choices and emerging professional identities amongst Newly Qualified Teachers in the post-compulsory sector.”

External professional interests:

I am currently an External Examiner for the lifelong learning Additional Diploma Provision at Greenwich University.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

• PGCE (PCET) pre-service Full Time (I am also the Programme Leader for this provision)
• PGCE/ Cert Ed (PCET) pre-service and in-service Part Time (I am also the Programme Leader for this provision)

• Introduction to Teaching and Learning
• History & Development of PCET
• Professional Reflective Practice (A and B)
• Curriculum and Assessment
• Supporting and Tutoring Learners

• Kidd W (2010) ‘Blogging, podcasting, professional anxiety and change: the use of Web2.0 technologies for supporting Initial teacher education in the Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) sector.’ Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 1-4 September 2010. Education-line/ BEI http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/193386.pdf
• Kidd W (2009) “How does it feel to be "inside and outside at the same time"? Reflections on the complexities and ambiguities of a practitioner action research project in east London” Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September 2009 Education-line/BEI - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/184298.pdf
• Kidd W (2009) “iLearn, iTrain, iTeach: what do young people think about good teaching and successful learning? Capturing learners' voice with a view to using podcast recordings to better inform trainee teachers on initial teacher education programmes” Paper presented at the 6th Annual Symposium of the Learning Development in Higher Education Network (LDHEN) - "The Challenge of Learning Development", Bournemouth University, 6-7 April 2009 Education-line/BEI - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/184300.pdf
• Kidd W (2008) “Action Research Within East London Post-Compulsory Provision” ESCalate academic papers on line. http://escalate.ac.uk/5160

• Paper presented at the 2011 European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Conference title 'Urban Education' (Berlin). The paper was 'Exploring the Boundary Crossing and Identity Formation of Novice Teachers in a Global Metropolis: Training and Teaching in East London'. Held at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 13-16 September, 2011.
  
• Paper presented at the international ‘Re-thinking digital ethnographies’ conference in Porto, Portugal 2nd May – 5th May, 2011. The conference, organised by ECER Network 19 (ethnography) looked at: ‘Rethinking Educational Ethnography: Researching On-line Communities and Interactions’. My paper ‘Using online communities, wikis and blogs to capture the ‘boundary crossing’ of novice teachers. An action research enquiry on the margins of digital ethnography’, drew upon work undertaken with the PCET trainees here at UEL. The conference took place at the Educational Research and Intervention Centre (CIIE) - Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto. See here.
• Paper presented at the International Conference “Crossing Boundaries: The multiple roles of trainers and teachers in vocational education and training”, run by The Network of Trainers in Europe – see here. The event was held on 14-15 October 2010 in Kostelec near Prague, Czech Republic. The title of the paper was: ‘Mismatch and tension: Challenges of legitimate participation in the adoption of Web2.0 technologies to enhance the teaching and learning of vocational and work based trainee teachers’. The network’s homepages are located at: http://www.trainersineurope.org/
• Conference paper presented at the 2010 British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference, 1-4th September, University of Warwick – ‘Blogging, podcasting, professional anxiety and change: The use of Web2.0 technologies for supporting initial teacher education in the post-compulsory education and training (PCET) sector.’
• Conference paper presented at the 2009 Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) Annual Conference, 9 -10 November, 2009 – ‘Knowing me, knowing you. Using the mentor, trainee and learner 'voice' to inform reflective practice for UEL PCET provision. Towards the adoption of emergent technologies for E(nhanced)-reflection’. Materials for presentation located on UCET website here. Overview of the 2009 UCET Annual Conference can be found here.
• Workshop presented at 2009 pre conference on 7th October 2009 ‘Research as Part of Continued Professional Development’ (National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)) “Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? Dissemination of a practitioner action research project in east London.”
• Conference paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) 2009 Annual Conference - “How does it feel to be ‘inside and outside at the same time’? Reflections on the complexities and ambiguities of a practitioner action research project in east London.” University of Manchester, 2 – 5 September 2009.
• Paper delivered at LSRN Regional Conference – Greenwich 10th July 2009 - “Video killed the radio star! Towards the adoption of emergent technologies for e-reflection on the PGCE PCET programme at the University of East London (UEL).”
• Seminar delivered at LONCETT Annual Conference Monday 8th June 2009 (In conjunction with Martin Belgrove) “E-Mentoring support to build capacity and achieve sustainability.”
• Conference paper presented for the 6th annual symposium of the Learning Development in Higher Education Network (LDHEN) – “The Challenge of Learning Development” - April 2009, at Bournemouth University - “iLearn, iTrain, iTeach: What do young people think about good teaching and successful learning? Capturing the learners’ voice with a view to using podcast recordings to better inform trainee teachers on initial teacher education programmes.” www.aldinhe.ac.uk/bmth09/papers/Kidd_paper.pdf
• Conference paper presented in 2008: Sussex Learning Network ‘Three by the Sea: Learning from research’ – ‘Experiences and reflections on being ‘inside and outside’ at the same time’.

• Kidd W and Czerniawski G (2011) Teaching Teenagers: A toolbox for engaging and motivating learners. London: Sage. Link here:
• Czerniawski G and Kidd W (2011) The Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide. Bingley: Emerald. Link Here:
• Kidd W and Czerniawski G (2010) Successful Teaching 14-19. Theory, Practice and Reflection. London: Sage. Link here:
• Kidd W (2009) ‘Peer Coaching and Mentoring to Improve Treaching and Learning’ in practical research for education, number 42. PRE is the journal of the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) – see Link here:
• Kidd W, Legge, K and Harari, P (2009) Politcs and Power: Skills-Based Sociology. Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan. Link here:
• Kidd W (2009) “Will the Real Sociology Please Stand Up? Reflections on the Teaching of Sociological Theories and Concepts” in Social Science Teacher vol 38 no 2
• Kidd W (2008) “Action Research Within East London Post-Compulsory Provision” ESCalate academic papers on line. http://escalate.ac.uk/5160
• Kidd W and Czerniawski G (2004) "Research and Value Freedom" in Sociology Review vol 14 no 2 (Philip Allan)
• Kidd W, Abbot D and Czerniawski G (2004) Heinemann Sociology A2 for OCR Oxford: Heinemann
• Kidd W, Abbot D and Czerniawski G (2004) Heinemann Sociology A2 for AQA Oxford: Heinemann
• Kidd W, Abbot D and Czerniawski G (2003) Heinemann Sociology AS for AQA Oxford: Heinemann
• Kidd W, Czerniawski G and Abbott D (2003) Heinemann Sociology AS for OCR Oxford: Heinemann
• Kidd W (2003) “I Am What I Am: Culture and Identity in Sociology” in Sociology Review vol 12 no 3 (Philip Allan)
• Kidd W (2002) “Seeking Solutions: Some Practicalities of Sociology Teaching” in Social Science Teacher vol 23 no 1
• Kidd W (2002) Culture and Identity Basingstoke: Palgrave
• Kidd W (2001) “Time To Think About Age?” in Sociology Review vol 10 no 2 (Philip Allan)
• Kirby M, Kidd W, Koubel F, Barter J, Hope T, Kirton A, Madry N, Manning P and Triggs K (2000) Sociology in Perspective AQA Edition Oxford: Heinemann
• Kirby M, Kidd W, Koubel F, Barter J, Hope T, Kirton A, Madry N, Manning P and Triggs K (2000) Sociology in Perspective OCR Edition Oxford: Heinemann
• Steel L and Kidd W (2000) The Family Basingstoke: Palgrave
• Kidd W (1999) “Family Diversity in an Uncertain Future” in Sociology Review vol. 9 no. 1 (Philip Allan)
• Kidd W (1999) “The Importance of the Sociological Imagination” in Sociology Review vol 9 no 1 (Philip Allen)
• Kidd W et al. (ed) (1998) Readings in Sociology Oxford: Heinemann
• Kirby M, Kidd W, Koubel F, Barter J, Hope T, Kirton A, Madry N, Manning P and Triggs K (1997) Sociology in Perspective Oxford: Heinemann (Chapters contributed – Deviance, The Mass Media, Power and Politics and Religion and Belief Systems)