Professor Martin Jephcote
Dean for Education and Students for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor in School of Social Sciences
Overview
Martin's work is informed by a social constructionist perspective which underpins his understanding of and research into the construction of knowledge, the processes of learning and education and training policies and practices.
As Dean of Education and Students, Martin supports the development and implementation of the University’s education strategy and the College’s education agenda.
Martin liaises with and supports College Board and Directors of Teaching and Learning in maintaining academic standards and assuring the quality of teaching. In this he works closely with the College Associate Deans for Assessment and Feedback and for Employability. Martin also leads the College ARG, supporting the admission and recruitment of new students. He meets regularly with student representatives from across the College, and with the Student’s Union officers and ensures that student voices are heard and acted on in the College to enhance the student experience.
Biography
Publications
2012
- Hulme, M., Jephcote, M. J. and Menter, I. 2012. Teacher education for the 21st Century: evidence-informed policy?. In: Tan, O. S. ed. Teacher Education Frontiers: International Perspectives on Policy and Practice for Building New Teacher Competencies. Singapore: Cengage Learning, pp. 307-327.
- Jephcote, M. J. and Latiner Raby, R. 2012. A comparative view of Colleges of Further Education (UK) and Community Colleges (US): maintaining access in an era of financial constraint. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 17(3), pp. 349-366. (10.1080/13596748.2012.700177)
2011
- Jephcote, M. J. 2011. The unintended consequences of funding policies on student achievement at colleges of further education in Wales and England. Presented at: 55th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Canada, 1 - 5 May 2011.
2010
- Salisbury, J. and Jephcote, M. J. 2010. Mucking in and mucking out: vocational learning in animal care. Teaching and Teacher Education 26(1), pp. 71-81. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.09.018)
2009
- Jephcote, M. J., Salisbury, J. and Rees, G. M. 2009. The learning journey: Students' experiences of further education in Wales. Contemporary Wales 22(1), pp. 141-157.
- Jephcote, M. J. and Salisbury, J. 2009. Further education teachers' accounts of their professional identities. Teaching and Teacher Education 25(7), pp. 966-972. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.05.010)
- Jephcote, M. J., Salisbury, J. and Rees, G. M. 2009. Learning and working in further education in Wales: an overview and initial findings. Welsh Journal of Education 14(2), pp. 18-28.
- Salisbury, J., Jephcote, M. J. and Roberts, J. 2009. FE teachers talking about students' learning. Research Papers in Education 24(4), pp. 421-438. (10.1080/02671520802149915)
- Jephcote, M. J. 2009. Teachers’ learning: Committed and resilient teachers are more effective practitioners. The International Journal of Learning 16(11), pp. 63-72.
- David, M.et al. 2009. Effective learning and teaching in UK higher education: A commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. London, UK: Teaching and Learning Research Programme.
2008
- Jephcote, M. J. and Salisbury, J. 2008. Becoming and being: further education teachers’ accounts of their professional identities. Presented at: British Educational Research Asociation Conference, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 3 - 6 September 2008.
- Jephcote, M. J., Salisbury, J. and Rees, G. M. 2008. Inside further education: the social context of learning. Project Report. [Online]. TLRP. Available at: http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/JephcoteRB52final.pdf
- Jephcote, M. J. and Salisbury, J. 2008. The wider social context of learning: beyond the classroom door. Presented at: Fifteenth International Conference on Learning, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, 3 - 6 June 2008.
- Jephcote, M. J., Salisbury, J. and Rees, G. M. 2008. Being a teacher in further education in changing times. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 13(2), pp. 163-172. (10.1080/13596740802141287)
- Salisbury, J. and Jephcote, M. J. 2008. Editorial: Special Issue: Participation in Learning: Diverse Perspectives. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 13(2), pp. 137-138. (10.1080/13596740802141246)
- Salisbury, J. and Jephcote, M. J. 2008. Initial encounters of an FE kind. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 13(2), pp. 149-162. (10.1080/13596740802141261)
- Menter, M. and Jephcote, M. J. 2008. Teacher learning in schools and further education. Presented at: ESRC/TLRP Improving Teaching: Enhancing Learning Conference, QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London, 24 - 25 November 2008.
- Jephcote, M. J. and Salisbury, J. 2008. The wider social context of learning: beyond the classroom door. The International Journal of Learning 15(6), pp. 281-288.
- Rees, G. M., Jephcote, M. J. and Salisbury, J. 2008. The teacher's lot. Adults Learning 20(1), pp. 26-27.
2007
- Jephcote, M. J. and Salisbury, J. 2007. The long shadow of incorporation: the further education sector in devolved Wales. Welsh Journal of Education 14(1), pp. 100 - 116.
- Jephcote, M. J. and Davies, B. 2007. School Subjects, Subject Communities and Curriculum Change: the Social Construction of Economics in the School Curriculum. Cambridge Journal of Education 37(2), pp. 207-227. (10.1080/03057640701372459)
2005
- Jephcote, M. J. and Abbott, I. 2005. Tinkering and Tailoring: the Reform of 14-19 Education in England. Journal of Vocational Education & Training 57(2), pp. 181-202. (10.1080/13636820500200282)
2004
- Jephcote, M. J. and Davies, B. 2004. Recontextualising Discourse: Exploring the Workings of the Meso-Level. Journal of Education Policy 19(5), pp. 547-564. (10.1080/0268093042000269135)
- Parken, A.et al. 2004. Equal opportunities and diversity changing employment patterns in the European electricity industry: A Report for EPSU, EMCEF and EURELECTRIC. Project Report. [Online]. European Commission. Available at: http://www.epsu.org/IMG/pdf/ExecutiveSummary081204.pdf
Teaching
I contribute to teaching at all levels. I am currently convenor of master’s modules in school management and school leadership, and managing and improving learning.
I supervise master’s and doctoral students in the broad area of education and training with a particular interest in the post-compulsory (further education) stage and continue to be interested in school subject histories.
I have been involved in the start-up of a major new Master’s in Educational Practice programme, which is a Welsh Government fully funded programme open to all newly qualified teachers in Wales. More widely I have a particular interest in the quality assurance of higher education programmes, with a particular interest in assessment and feedback, and more generally in quality assurance processes including validation.
My work is informed by a social constructionist perspective which underpins my understanding of and research into the construction of knowledge, the processes of learning and education and training policies and practices.
I am interested in the contested and evolutionary nature of the construction of pedagogic discourse and the ways in which policies are made and implemented. My work was the first to make a substantial contribution in the field of school economics and pointed to the functions of the under-researched meso-level in mediating policy and the interplay of power and control.
With a particular focus on the impacts of policy changes on teachers’ lives and work and students’ learning, I am interested in the social organisation of learning, and both teacher and learner identities: see for example, The International Journal of Learning, 2008, 2009 and Teaching and Teacher Education, 2009, 2010.
I am a member of the Teacher Education Research Group and involved in the development of information to for beginning teacher educators, was principal investigator in an ESRC/TLRP research project called Learning and Working in Further Education in Wales and a co-researcher in the ESRC/TLRP Learning to Teach in Post-Devolution UK project.
I have recently been involved in the start up of a major new Master’s in Educational Practice programme aimed at newly qualified teachers in Wales.
My current scholarship and research is focussed on developing a comparative dimension and is among the first of its kind to compare UK colleges of Further Education with American Community Colleges and their global counterparts.
A particular focus has been on the impacts of financial downturn on the college curriculum, on teaching, and organisation and open access policies: see for example Research in Post Compulsory Education, 2012.