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Peter Shukie
Peter Shukie is a lecturer in higher education with programme leader roles on education studies and on a PGCE post-compulsory programme. He works at University Centre Blackburn College and has external examiner roles at the University of East London and Newcastle College Group. Dr Shukie’s Ph.D. research explored the ways technology and distance education work in informal and community educational spaces. Research interests include digital technology and pedagogy, social justice, art and education, Deleuzean influences on education, working-class identities in academia and the arts, post-human pedagogies, social practice (art and education in community), and informal and non-institutional education. His publications include work on social justice, technology, post-human education and art as a pedagogical approach for social justice. Peter was founder of the International Working-Class Academics Conference that began in 2020. He is also the founder of the Community Open Online Courses (COOCs.org) education platform for community, informal and activist educators. Peter is an ambassador for the Worker’s Education Association and a fellow of the RSA. In 2019 he won the Social Impact Award at the National Festival of Learning for his work with community digital learning.
Contact: School of Education and Humanities, University Centre Blackburn College, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 1DN, UK.
