Craig is a Reader in ‘Pedagogies and Critical Theory’, and a National Teaching Fellow (2022). He started his career as an FE lecturer in 1999 at Blackburn College, and in 2002 moved across to the University Centre at Blackburn to teach on the degree programmes. He joined Liverpool John Moores University in the School of Education in February 2017.
Dr Craig Hammond was Senior Lecturer in Education, a BERA SIG Convenor and Co-Vice-Chair of the Centre for Educational Research at Liverpool John Moores University. He is committed to transforming pedagogic practice and the student experience through experimental and collaborative teaching, using popular culture as a springboard for reflective practice.
Dr Craig Hammond was Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). Prior to moving to LJMU, Craig taught across further education and college based higher education (CBHE) for 18 years. From 2015 to 2017 Craig was the Research and Scholarship Leader at University Centre Blackburn College. Gaining his PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in 2012, he then obtained recognition as a Senior Fellow of Advance HE in 2015.
His recent publications Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education: Pedagogical Tactics for Alternative Futures (Bloomsbury, 2018), and ‘Folds, Fractals and Bricolages for Hope: Some Conceptual and Pedagogical Tactics for a Creative Higher Education’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), address and develop concepts and practices associated with democratic learning and radical creativity.
Craig is passionate about democratically engaging students in the co-creation of knowledge, by utilising tactics and techniques that enable reflective, auto-ethnographic reflection and writing. Craig also works across networks and academic contexts to support colleagues to experiment with alternative pedagogic techniques.
In June 2018, Craig was elected as co-convenor to the British Educational Research Associations (BERA) ‘Higher Education’ Special Interest Group (SIG). As part of this role he drives, arranges and publicises research, pedagogic innovation and publication opportunities and events for academic colleagues across the four UK nations with a focus on higher education teaching and learning. He develops the strategic direction of the SIG, including the development and implementation of HE pedagogy related events.
He also contributes towards BERA’s annual conference, organising regular activities such as workshops and seminars. Craig is also Co-Vice-Chair of LJMUs Centre for Educational Research (CERES) and has developed and implemented an ‘Enhancing Academic Practice’ (EAP) mentorship framework, to support colleagues across the School of Education and CERES membership, to develop their research and scholarship activities. He is also one of the managing editors for the innovative education journal PRISM; as part of this role he supports and trains new Section and Guest Editors and works to enhance and improve the innovative and experimental nature of the journal.
