I am an academic and educator interested in religion, the arts and humanities and in professional learning and enquiry in a diverse range of local, national and international contexts. My most recent senior role (2010-15) involved management of one of the UK's leading Schools of Education in a major research-led university, which finished as No 1 for Education in the September 2015 Times/Sunday Times University Guide. My currentprojects include:Directing the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Equity in the School of Education of the University of Glasgowa project with Prof James C. Conroy on the place of knowledge in contemporary curriculum and learningCo-Editing with Dr Maureen Farrell The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Children's LiteratureContinuing work on the historical and cultural study of the English LullabyCoordinating a University of Glasgow Applied Social Science Research and Knowledge Exchange Hub in the East End of Glasgow at the Olympia Building, Bridgeton CrossI am an executive member of several learned societies and professional bodies and edited the Journal of Philosophy of Education from 2011-2021. I have held visiting academic positions and given keynote addresses at many universities across the world.Specialties: teacher education; religious and theological education; comparative religion; Catholic education; philosophy of education; history of education; music education; cultural studies; anthropology; literary theory and criticism; Romanticism; childhood studies; folklore and mythology; natural history; environmental education