Professor Damien Page
About Professor Damien Page
Professor Damien Page is Dean of The Carnegie School of Education.
Professor Page has worked in education since 2000. He began his career as an English Lecturer at Lewisham College where he was also a manager in a number of subject areas including humanities, finance and construction. While in FE, Professor Page focused on the development of e-learning, working as a consultant for the Learning and Skills Network, creating the Academy of e-Business and winning the JISC e-Learning Practitioner Award in 2005. After six year in FE, he was appointed as Curriculum and Learning Manager for Linking London Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London, one of the largest lifelong learning networks in the country, forging links between further education colleges and universities.
Prior to joining Leeds Beckett, Damien worked at the University of Greenwich, firstly as a Senior Lecturer on the post-compulsory PGCE, the MA in Education and the Doctorate in Education. He was then appointed as Head of Department of Education and Community Studies, an interdisciplinary department that housed research and courses in a range of areas including education studies, childhood and youth studies and early years, from undergraduate to doctoral level. He was concurrently Director of Employability and led the development of social enterprise.
As Dean, Professor Page is responsible for the leadership of the School’s diverse portfolio of education, interdisciplinary and leadership courses, from undergraduate to doctoral, from attending to online modes, as well as our research and enterprise activity. He is a member of a range of strategic groups in the University including the Senior Management Group, Research and Enterprise Committee, Equality and Diversity Committee, the Joint Consultative Committee and the Access and Participation Strategic Group.
Research Interests
Since achieving his PhD in 2011, Professor Page has conducted interdisciplinary research in a range of fields such as family engagement in Alternative Provision, teacher surveillance, organisational masculinities and performance management in schools. This work has resulted in publication in a number of highly ranked journals such as the British Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Education Policy and the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Selected Publications
Journal articles (21)
- Page D (2020), Family engagement in Alternative Provision
https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3692
View Repository Record - Page D (2020), The academic as consumed and consumer
https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2019.1598585
View Repository Record - Tate S; Page D (2018), Whiteliness and institutional racism: Hiding behind (un)conscious bias
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2018.1428718
View Repository Record - Page D (2018), Conspicuous practice: self-surveillance and commodification in English education
https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1351309
View Repository Record - Page D (2017), The surveillance of teachers and the simulation of teaching
https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1209566
View Repository Record - Page D (2017), Conceptualising the surveillance of teachers
https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1218752
View Repository Record - Page D (2016), Understanding performance management in schools: a dialectical approach
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-06-2014-0087
View Repository Record - Page D (2016), The Multiple Impacts of Teacher Misbehaviour
https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-09-2014-0106
View Repository Record - Page D (2015), The visibility and invisibility of performance management in schools
https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3185
View Repository Record - Page D (2015), Teachers' personal web use at work
https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2014.928744 - Page D (2014), Managing serious teacher misbehaviour
https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2013.849682 - Page D (2013), Metaphors of Faith and Routine Resistance: First Tier Managers in Further Education
https://doi.org/10.20533/licej.2040.2589.2013.0167 - Page D (2013), Recruitment and Transition of Construction Lecturers in Further Education
https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143213488379 - Page D (2013), Managers coping in further educational colleges
https://doi.org/10.1108/jmd-01-2012-0001 - Page D (2013), Desirable organisational masculinities: Competition and entrepreneurialism in schools of construction in further education colleges
https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2013.800445 - Page D (2013), The abolition of the General Teaching Council for England and the future of teacher discipline
https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2012.711859 - Page D (2013), Teacher misbehaviour: an analysis of disciplinary orders by the General Teaching Council for England
- Page D (2011), Fundamentalists, priests, martyrs and converts: a typology of first tier management in further education
- Page D (2011), From principled dissent to cognitive escape: managerial resistance in the English Further Education sector
- Page D (2011), I-deals in Further Education? A new approach to managerial job design
- Page D (2010), Power and resistance in Further Education: findings from a study of first tier managers
Chapters (3)
- Page D (2020) 'Poor worm, thou art infected!': Seduction and colonisation in Further Education. In: Daley M; Orr K; Petrie J Caliban's Dance: FE after The Tempest. London: Trentham Books, pp. .
View Repository Record - Page D (2017) 'For one will always find malcontents': in defence of the Principal. In: Daley M; Orr K; Petrie J The Principal: Power and professionalism in FE. London: Trentham Books, pp. .
- Page D (2015) 'The soldier danced with them unseen': Managerial resistance and collusion in Further Education. In: Daley M; Orr K; Petrie J Further Education and the Twelve Dancing Princesses. : , pp. .
Internet publications (3)
- Page D (2020), Family engagement in Alternative Provision (Research Summary)
- Page D (2017), Five things schools can do to help pupils' mental health
- Page D (2016), Teaching inside the glass cage
Lectures (1)
- Tate S; Page D (2018), Whiteliness and institutional racism: Hiding behind unconscious bias