Public Policy and Professional Practice

Stephen Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Education. Prior to commencing his career in Higher Education he was, for ten years, a programme manager in a Yorkshire FE college, and before that a hotel and restaurant manager in Leeds. Between 1985 and 1991 he was a Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Athletics Coach.

Stephen's research draws primarily on (pro)feminist poststructuralist theories in order to critically explore men and masculinities, identity, gender and management, and organisational behaviour. He has undertaken extensive research into post-1993 Further Education policy and practice. He is currently engaged in research into global representations of men and masculinities, and gender and identity.

Professional and research networks include membership of the Gender Research Forum of the Cabinet Office (UK Gov); International Association of the Study of Men (IASOM) Norway; the British Sociological Association (BSA); the Further Education Research Association (FERA); Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET); and the Organisational Studies Research Group. He has undertaken research collaboration with colleagues from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe.

Stephen is currently supervising PhD and EdD students whose research includes explorations of masculine identity performances in schools; men in feminized professional terrains; and masculinities and the management of education.

Published 2008

• Whitehead, S. Metrosexuality! Cameron, Brown and the politics of new masculinity, Public Policy Research, 14:4.
• Whitehead, S. M. (ed) Men and Masculinities: Critical Concepts in Sociology. Routledge

Published 2005

• Whitehead, S. M. Performativity Culture and the Further Education Professional, Management in Education, 19:3.

Published 2004

• Whitehead, S. M. The Many Faces of Men. Arrow

Published 2003

• Whitehead, S. M. Men, Women, Love and Romance. Fusion Press

Published 2002

• Whitehead, S. M. Men and Masculinities: key themes and new directions. Cambridge: Polity.

Published 2001

• Dent, M. and Whitehead, S. (eds) Managing Professional Identities: knowledge, performativity and the 'new' professional. London: Routledge.
• Whitehead, S.M. and Barrett, F.J. (eds) The Masculinities Reader. Cambridge: Polity.
• Whitehead, S. Woman as Manager: A seductive ontology, Gender, Work and Organization, 8:1.
• Whitehead, S. The Invisible Gendered Subject: men in education management, Journal of Gender Studies, 10:1.

Published 2000

• Kerfoot, D., Prichard, C. and Whitehead, S. (eds) (En)Gendering Management: work, organisation and further education, Journal of Further and Higher Education (Special Issue). 24:2.
• Goddard-Patel, P. and Whitehead, S. Examining the crisis of further education: an analysis of 'failing' colleges and failing policies, Policy Studies. 21:3.

Published 1999

• Whitehead, S. and Moodley, R. (eds) Transforming Managers: gendering change in the public sector. London: UCL Press.
• Whitehead, S. From Paternalism to Entrepreneuralism: the experience of men managers in UK postcompulsory education, Discourse, 20:1.

MBA

• MB01 Organisational Behaviour and Development
• MB07 Research Methods and Methodologies
• Dissertation Supervision

EdD

• Evidence based Policy and Practice
• Gender and Education Management
• Course Units: 1a & 1b/2a & 2b

PhD

• PhD Supervision