Dr Beverley Hayward
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Committed to inclusion and lifelong learning, with nearly twenty years’ experience of teaching, coordinating and managing in HE, I recently, completed a PhD that is multi-disciplinary, exploring the subjectivities of support workers in a post-structuralist context of lifelong learning. I favour mixed methods that draw upon quantitative approaches to explore widening participation and inclusion, specifically those students with SpLDs, mental health issues and from disadvantaged backgrounds. I often expose my own vulnerabilities of being dyslexic and from a working-class background, in my teaching practice, with the expectation of putting my students at ease. The intension is to encourage those that have a learning difference or disability not to give up on their education, but to continue in a collective community of learning. In that community of support and encouragement a democratic pedagogical experience can be fostered to initiate a dialogue to help each other through challenging times. Only recently have I had the confidence to speak out about my own literacy difficulties, but in sharing my experiences, I feel I have fostered a more authentic approach to teaching. In finding my own voice and telling my story, I hoped to facilitate a horizontal approach to enable adult learners to feel comfortable to speak their truths and be successful in their/our lifelong learning journeys.
Qualifications
- PhD Education, Transformation and Lifelong Learning, UCL, 2019
- MSc Gender, Sexuality and Society, BBK UCL, 2014
- MEd Equality and Diversity, Open University, 2008
- Post-grad Cert. in Professional Studies in Education (E801 Dyslexia) , open University, 2008
- MA Art History, Open University, 2007
- PGCE (PC), Institute of Education, University College London , 2003
- BA (Hons) Humanities with Art History, Open University, 2001
Web profiles
Professional activities
Hayward, B.M., 2019. The Salty Kiss of Cixous on my Psyche, Lamplight Magazine, Issue 1, May 2019, p. 17. http://anyflip.com/nrhb/taut/basic
Hayward, B. M., 2018. An exploration into the subject positionings of the Learning Support Assistant in PC education, as they practise their art and craft In: Proceedings of the 47th Annual SCUTREA Conference, p.317-325. http://www.scutrea.ac.uk/2018/https://drive.google.com/file/d/136b0PiP8jQholEcifq9JBCpDRk13iZmO/view
Professional memberships
Associate Dyslexia Guild
Associate Art History
Senior Fellow for the Higher Education Academy
Honours and awards
- Prize, Laurel Brake prize for the best dissertation of the year , October 2014
- Tilda Gaskell award best presented student paper , SCUTREA, October 2018
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Creativity and the ecriture feminine as an approach to facilitate transformation
- The artist as educator in the context of a feminist aesthetic
- Education and the (dis)abled student in HE
Research Centres and Institutes
Post doctoral staff
- Kerry Harman
- Sue Dunn
- Jan Etienne
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Independent Research Module (SSPA085D7)
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Publications
Publications
Conference Item
- Hayward, Beverley (2021) The trauma and the triumph. SCUTREA Conference: Adult Education in Global Times: An International Research Conference, 2021, Online
- Hayward, Beverley (2018) An exploration into the subject positionings of the female learning support assistant in post compulsory education, as they practice their art and craft.. 47th Annual SCUTREA Conference, 2018, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK