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Katrina Perkins

PhD student - Global citizenship in College-based Higher Education

01752 636700

20208368@marjon.ac.uk or Perkins.K@pgr.marjon.ac.uk


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Role Summary

With education disruption catalysed globally by Covid-19 and as barriers between nations and people continue to fade, it has become increasingly important to prepare learners to understand global challenges and perspectives.

Whilst students face unprecedented opportunities and challenges in coming to terms with globalization, my research aims to provide insight into global competency or lack thereof whilst using findings to build conceptual clarity and highlight strategies for students, teachers and higher education institutions to overcome existing and potential barriers, thereby helping to deal with the free-ranging, unpredictable and contentious nature of much of global citizenship. 

Based on cosmopolitan ideals expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, global citizenship is a key factor in promoting more freedom and democracy in today’s globalized world. Widening participation policies allege to help increase social mobility, an outcome which is encouraged by UK Government to see a society which is less stratified by socioeconomic class and instead based on notions of upward social mobility and gap closing discourses. Given the highly complex and inter-related myriad of human and environmental processes, this need to prepare learners and teachers to understand global challenges and perspectives has increased. Despite higher education providers having an obligation to use their knowledge capacities to advance social life and develop more critically conscious students, research suggests that efforts are falling short.


Qualifications

  • MA Education
  • PGCE inc DET
  • BA Child Development and Education
  • FHEA


Teaching

As a lecturer in both FE and HE and informed from a position of egalitarianism, enabling learners to achieve to their full potential is at the heart of my pedagogy. I have worked at South Devon College since 2016 delivering and writing/ re-writing a variety of programmes. I am currently Higher Education Lead for our BA (Hons) Education, Development and Society & FdSc Psychology with Sociology programmes. I am module leader for Global Education, Introduction to Sociology, Social Change, Professional Practice and a dissertation supervisor. My passion for quality assurance has led me to take on the role of safeguarding governor at a local school and curriculum area moderator for three colleges across the country.


Research

PhD start date: October 2021

PhD supervisors: Prof Debby Cotton and Prof Jennie Winter


Publications

Book Chapter on Global Education and Global Citizenship due to be published Sept 2022.


Other Interests

My teaching and research interests are centred around class inequality, poverty, globalisation, mass media and most recently global citizenship. Outside of academia, I enjoy spending time with my son and husband, exploring the outdoors, travelling and cooking!

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