Simon Warren

My research focuses on two main areas

• The politics and sociology of academic work
• University pedagogy with a particular interest in diversity.

Politics and sociology of academic work

I am inquiring into the impact of research performativity and associated systems of performance management, measurement, and professional progression on the nature of academic work.  This research looks particularly on how these processes and political rationalities manifest in Europe's more peripheral higher education systems. This has a specific focus on

• Linguistic impact - how these processes impact the languages with which and through which academics think and practice
• Disciplinary impact - how these processes impact different traditions of knowledge work
• Epistemological impact - how these processes impact the forms of knowledge with which and through which academics think and the nature of their epistemic communities.

This work is in collaboration with partners across Europe including Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, Finland, Iceland, Spain, and Ireland.

University pedagogy

I am inquiring into two areas with a focus on diversity

• I am working with colleagues in Ireland and Lithuania adapting the Decoding the Disciplines methodology (http://decodingthedisciplines.org/) to cultivate positive dispositions towards diversity.  This focuses on developments within the mainstream curriculum to promote forms of critical thinking that can stimulate or provoke students to rethink issues of diversity.
• With the RUC-PPL Research Centre (https://ruc.dk/en/ruc-ppl) I am exploring how the Roskilde pedagogic model can be articulated as a powerful form of global learning in order to integrate RUC's commitment to 'international insight and vision' into the mainstream curriculum (https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/projects/re-thinking-problem-oriented-learning-and-the-challenge-of-global).