Steve is Associate Professor of Teacher Education. He is a qualified geography teacher and was previously the head of department at a comprehensive secondary school in Oxfordshire, and Head of Programmes at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. He is PI on the NERC/Agile funded project ‘
NetZeroED’, PI on the BA/Leverhulme funded project ‘The Gujarati Navigator: exploring journeys of information, knowledge and expertise’, and leads the interdisciplinary Education and Training for the Climate
(ETC) Hub at Oxford.
He holds an MA in Educational Leadership and Innovation from Warwick University, an c in Educational Research Methodology and a DPhil in Education from the University of Oxford which were funded by an ESRC Studentship. He is a qualified Mountain Leader and rock climbing instructor, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
