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Ralph Leighton
Ralph Leighton was seconded to Canterbury Christ Church University to develop a pre-service course for citizenship education teachers in 2002, a course he currently leads. He has published research concerned with the nature of school provision of citizenship education and factors that influence teacher perceptions and delivery of citizenship, as well as the potential for social change which the subject presents. His current research, in collaboration with Dr Laila Nielsen of Jönköping University, Sweden, is an examination of how the conditions of citizenship are addressed in upper secondary schools in England and Sweden and the perceptions of ‘citizen’ held by students and their teachers. Ralph has spoken at a number of conferences in the United Kingdom and in Germany, Belgium, Poland, Portugal and Spain. He is published in refereed journals and edited collections and is the author of Teaching Citizenship Education: A Radical Approach published by Continuum (2012). Ralph was appointed fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016.