Dr Warren Kidd

Warren is a Senior Lecturer at UEL, and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Patras, Greece. Warren’s background is in the teaching of sociology, psychology and geography. Warren has been an education action researcher, an experienced author for over twenty years, and he is a teacher educator. He has an interest in technology enhanced learning, inclusion and neurodiversity in the teacher workforce, podcasting for educational gain, the use of emergent technologies for educational research practices, teacher identity and practices, teachers’ professional learning, museum education and critical and creative education. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Patterns of Practice: An International Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Warren is a member of the RIX Inclusive Research Team, using new technologies to transform the lives of people with learning disabilities. He currently teaches on MA Education and MA Leadership in Education as well as supervising Doctoral students.

Until 2024 Warren was the Director of Education and Student Experience for the School of Education and Communities, leading on learning, teaching and assessment for our school as well as coordinate processes around student retention, outcomes and satisfaction.

Previously, as senior lecturer in education at the School of Education and Communities, Warren was involved in developing, delivering and managing learning and teaching for professional postgraduate learners on Initial Teacher Education programmes for the secondary sector. Warren has previously been the programme leader for the PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education which is accredited by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) for the recognition of FHEA, as well as being the Professional Standards Manager for the University for three years (2016-2019).

Warren was awarded a UEL Teaching Fellowship in 2011 and he is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) as well as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Association (FRGS). He has been an Academic Associate for AdvanceHE, working as a constant for the delivery of international learning and teaching provision. Warren was a founding member of The International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (Info-TED). InFo-TED is an international forum with representatives from Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom and the USA working to promote the professional development of teacher educators.

Warren has had a writing career spanning over 15 years, supporting learning and teaching in a variety of contexts - sociology and education, learning and teaching and e-learning. Prior to working in higher education, Warren taught the humanities and sociology and psychology for 14 years in secondary schools and sixth form colleges in Surrey, Kent and London as an 'advanced teaching practitioner'. He previously worked in the multi-cultural, urban environment of Newham in east London for eight years in the Post Compulsory sector as a teacher of sociology, social science manager of a large sixth form college and as an action-researcher and cross-college manager responsible for teaching and learning.