Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Steve Burton
Head of Subject
Dr Steve Burton is the Head of Subject for Digital Transformative Education in the Carnegie School of Education. He undertakes research in digital learning, and lectures in the areas of digital learning, safeguarding, digital safety, leadership, and professionalism in education.
Steve supervises doctoral candidates, leads the '#digital learning for positive change' research cluster, and chairs the Leeds Learning Alliance Digital Strategy group.
He has co-edited and contributed to two editions of the safeguarding textbook, ‘Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years,’ a popular text for students on safeguarding. He has additionally co-authored chapters in three editions of ‘Teaching in Lifelong Learning,’ a current teacher training text for the lifelong learning sector.
Steve has worked in a managerial position for West Yorkshire Police in their Force Intelligence unit, and maintains the interest in criminology that he developed there through his teaching and writing on safeguarding children.
Steve’s doctorate used phenomenography to examine the influence that initial training has on the professional practice of in-service teachers in the lifelong learning sector, in order to develop a middle-range theory on teacher development.
Current Teaching
- MSc Digital Pedagogy
- MA Transformative Education
- PGCE Education
Research Interests
Steve is currently researching around the use of Immersive Reality technology in teaching and learning. This includes international research on best practice in digital learning, and more local research around the impact that technology can have on the engagement of pupils with the national curriculum.
Steve is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Bolton, through his work on digital learning with the RISE thinktank.
Ask Me About
- Education
- Leadership
- Social Media
- Teacher training
- Teaching
- Virtual reality
Selected Outputs
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Burton S (2013) Safeguarding children from online danger. In: Burton S; Reid J ed. Safeguarding and protecting children in the early years. Routledge,
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Burton SJ (2013) Communicating through a crisis. In: Burton S; Reid J ed. Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years. Routledge,
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eds. Reid J; Burton S (2013) Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years. Abingdon: Routledge.
