Hudson, Brian

Brian Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education and Social Work (2012-16) at the University of Sussex. He is Guest Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Karlstad University in Sweden where he works with the ROSE research group - 'Research On Subject-specific Education'.

He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2004, honorary membership of EERA Network 27 Didactics – Learning and Teaching in 2016 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Formerly he was the main organiser of the WERA Network on Didactics – Learning and Teaching. Previously he has held professorial posts at Sheffield Hallam University, Umeå University in Sweden and the University of Dundee. Before working in higher education he was a secondary school teacher of mathematics for fifteen years working in comprehensive schools, including five years as Head of Mathematics in an 11-18 high school.

He is co-editor with Marylin Leask and Sarah Younie of "Education System Design: Foundations, Policy Options and Consequences" published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group in 2021. Also he is co-editor with Niklas Gericke, Christina Olin-Scheller and Martin Stolare of "International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum: Epistemic Quality across School Subjects" (2022) and of "International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice" (2022) both published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Currently he is a Co-Investigator for the KOSS Network: "Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education” supported through an Educational Sciences network grant (2018-03603) from the Swedish Research Council (2019-2024). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, a member of the editorial boards of Education Inquiry & Seminar.net: Media, Technology and Lifelong Learning, a member of the Scientific Committee of Education and Didactique and a member of the international advisory board of Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. During 2023-24 he has worked as an educational consultant with the XP Trust based in Doncaster on developing their mathematics strategy.

ORCID:  0000-0001-5457-6513