Professor Mike Neary

Professor Mike Neary is the Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lincoln, the Director of the University's Centre for Educational Research and Development and the Director of the Graduate School.

Before coming to Lincoln in 2007 he taught Sociology at the University of Warwick. While at Warwick Mike was the Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

Mike's research is grounded in Marxist social theory framed in the context of Critical Labour Studies. His writings include work on youth unemployment, poverty, trade unionism and other types of social protest and resistance, as well as work on theories of money and the state. Recently his writing has focused on academic labour and undergraduate student life. This has included research into the development of learning and teaching spaces in universities: Learning Landscapes in Higher Education, funded by HEFCE/HEFCW and the SFC.

Mike is currently leading an HEA funded project: Student as Producer, which aims to connect academic research and undergraduate learning in a form of curriculum development that he refers to as research-engaged teaching. Mike has been an adviser and consultant for the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre Network and is a National Teaching Fellow

Forthcoming Keynotes in the summer of 2011

‘Student as Producer: Student Engagement and the Idea of the University’ conference on Student Engagement hosted by Galway University and the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning in Ireland (www.nairtl.ie), on 9^th and 10^th of June, 2011

‘Student as Producer: Future Making, Not Future Proofing’ at The Evolution of Higher Education: Future Proofing the Curriculum conference at De Montfort University Leicester, 21^st June 2011

‘Student as Producer: The Medium is not the Message’ at the Standing Conference of Heads of Media Services, University of Newcastle, 11^th May 2011

New book contract: Student as Producer - How do Revolutionary Teachers Teach, Zero Books ( http://www.zero-books.net/ ) to be published in 2012

Recorded Lecture

'Student as Producer: A Pedagogy for the Avant-Garde, Or, How Do Revolutionary Teachers' 'Teach, 16th November 2010
http://portal.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/Seminars/Lists/Events/Archived Events.aspx
(n.b. This links to a page listing events which is constantly updated. Scroll down to find video)

Writing – recent

Neary, M (2011 ) ‘Student as Producer – Bringing Critical Theory to Life through the Life of Students’, Roundhouse – A Journal of Critical Theory and Practice, University of Leeds (submitted December 2010) - http://www.essl.leeds.ac.uk/roundhouse/

Neary, M. and Winn, J. (2010) 'Education Beyond the Property Relation: From Commons to Communism,' (submitted December 2010) First Monday - http://firstmonday.org/

Neary, M. and Saunders, G. (2010) ‘ Leadership and Learning Landscapes in Higher Education: the Struggle for the Idea of the University’ (submitted August 2010) Higher Education Quarterly

Neary, M ( 2011) ‘Teaching in Public: Remaking the University in an era of Academic Capitalism’, in M. Neary, L. Bell and H. Stevenson ( eds) Teaching in Public – Reshaping the University, Continuum , London and New York ( in press)

Neary, M., Harrison, A., Parekh, N., Saunders, G., Duggan, F., Williams, S. and Austin, S. ( 2010) Learning Landscapes in Higher Education Report, Centre for Education Research and Development, University of Lincoln, pp. 54

Neary, M. and Winn, J. (2010) ‘Open Education beyond the Property Relation: Commons, Commonism and Communism’, paper for the Open Education Resources Conference, Barcelona

Neary, M. (2010) ‘Student as Producer: A Pedagogy for the Avant-Garde, or, How Do Revolutionary Teachers Teach?’ http://learningexchange.westminster.ac.uk/index.php/lej/issue/current

Neary, M. (2010) ‘Pedagogy of Excess – an Alternative Political Economy of Student Life’ in M. Molesworth, L. Nixon and R. Scullion ( eds) , The Marketisation of Higher Education The Student as Consumer, Routledge, London p 209 - 224

Neary, M. with Winn, J. (2009) ‘Student as Producer: Reinventing the Undergraduate Curriculum’ in L. Bell, H Stevenson, M. Neary (eds) The Future of Higher Education: Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience, Continuum, London and New York : 126 -139

Neary, M. and Thody, A. (2009) ‘The Learning Landscapes: Constructing a Contemporary University’, in L. Bell, H. Stevenson and M. Neary ( eds) The Future of Higher Education: Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience, Continuum, London and New York : 30 - 42

Writing - Selection

Lambert, C,, Parker, A., and Neary, M. (2007) ‘Entrepreneurialism and Critical Pedagogy: Reinventing the Higher Education Curriculum' Teaching in Higher Education volume 12, number 4 : 525-537.

Neary, M. and Taylor, G. (2006) ‘ From the Law of Insurance to the Law of the Lottery: An exploration of the Changing Composition of the Brtitish State’ in J.F. Cosgrave (ed) The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader New York, Routledge : 339 – 355

Neary, M. (2006) ‘Crime and the University: The Story of Sort’d - A Community - (Higher) Education Project’, Probation Journal: The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice, No. 53 Vol. 2 : 124 -136

Neary, M. (2003) Korean Transformations: Probation, Power Workers and the Politics of Human Rights, Sungkonghoe University Press, Seoul, Korea, pp. 166

Neary, M. (2002) Faith in the Coalfields: Community Regeneration or Managing Decline: Voices from the Underworld, Church of England Press, London, pp. 82.

Dinerstein A. and Neary, M. (eds) (2002) The Labour Debate: An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work , Ashgate, Basingstoke pp. 245

Neary, M. (ed.) (1999) Global Humanisation: Studies in the Manufacture of Labour, Cassells, London pp. 310

Neary, M. and Taylor, G. ( 1998) Money and the Human Condition, Macmillan, Basingstoke,pp 145

Neary, M. (1997) Youth, Training and the Training State, the Real History of Youth Training in the Twentieth Century, Macmillan, Basingstoke pp: 199

Press and Media

Daily Telegraph (2010) ' Lord Browne Review: University Teaching budgets slashed by 80%'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8059307/Lord-Browne-review-university-teaching-budgets-slashed-by-80.html

The Guardian ( 2010) ‘University Architecture Shapes Up for a Revolution’ - www.guardian.co.uk/.../university-architecture-revolution-students (August 31st )

Times Higher Education ( 2010) ‘Lingua Franca Needed’ www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411305 ( 22nd April)

Times Higher Education (2010) ‘Smells like the Spirit of 68’ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411059, (Ist April)

The Guardian ( 2007) ‘Out of the Comfort Zone’, www.guardian.co.uk/.../university-architecture-revolution-students, 16th October

Times Higher Education ( 2007) ‘In Celebration of the Art of Pedagogy’
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode...26 ( 6th July)

‘Teaching Matters Show Young Scholars a Way In’ ( 2007) - www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=310192

‘Universities – The Learning Mould is Smashed’ ( 2006)
www.independent.co.uk › News › Education › Higher ( 11th January)

e-mail: mneary@lincoln.ac.uk phone: 01522 886015