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Miles Smith is Associate Dean for Academic Partnerships at Plymouth Marjon University. He has worked in education for more than 25 years, including English Language Teaching in East Asia and London, mainstream primary education as a teacher and senior leader, and higher education at Marjon, where he has led and taught on the Primary Education BA and held leadership roles in the School of Education. As the first in his family to attend university, Miles brings a personal commitment to widening participation and advancing opportunities for underrepresented groups. In his role as Marjon’s Athena Swan chair, he works to embed equality and equity across teaching, leadership and research. This same commitment underpins his PhD, in which he co-researches with children to explore their experiences of learning history in primary school, enabling them to act as investigators and interpreters of their own experiences, with agency and empowerment.
Plymouth Marjon University’s archive contains a wealth of materials from its history, which spans almost two centuries. Before doing primary research, the Brian Simon Research fellowship fund...
Continue reading blog postThis special issue shares findings from research supported by a historical educational research to explore the impact of higher education (HE) on first-in-family students, some of whom...
Continue reading blog postThis special issue shares findings from research supported by a Â鶹ÒùÔº Brian Simon fellowship fund grant to do historical educational research to explore the impact of higher education (HE) on...
The impact of university education on disadvantaged people & their communities
The research presented in this series of reports was funded by a grant from the Brian Simon fellowship fund. Held in trust by Â鶹ÒùÔº, the fund was a gift from the family of Brian Simon, a leading...
Â鶹ÒùÔº is delighted to announce the winners of a new grants scheme supported by the use of the Brian Simon fellowship fund. These grants are made possible due to a gift from the family of Brian...
