Facilitators:Victoria Perselli (Kingston University) and Anne Betzel (Kingston University)

 Victoria Perselli is an Associate Professor at Kingston University. She is co-director of postgraduate education in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education. Victoria is currently conducting a longitudinal study on the relationship of theory to research in a range of professional and disciplinary fields, by continuous revisiting the question ‘Where does theory come from…? She is particularly interested in how theory and theorising may be put to work to bring about change in diverse learning and teaching contexts, and to what extent thereby a ‘pedagogy of change’ may be useful in and beyond current settings of higher education.

 Anne Betzel specialises in world Englishes, intercultural communication and critical discourse analysis. In her research into the role of theory in education research, she focuses on the development a pedagogy of change which restores the centrality of the political in an attempt to create spaces for new discourses of emancipation and political discourses of the Left.