Professor Miriam Zukas
Visiting Professor of Adult Education and Exec Dean, Birkbeck
Tel: +44 (0)113 3433242
Email: m.zukas@bbk.ac.uk
Visiting Professor, University of Leeds; Executive Dean, School of Social Science, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London; Editor, Studies in the Education of Adults
Member of Lifelong Learning Institute, CPSE.
Interests
I am concerned with pedagogic identities in further, adult and higher education, and more broadly within professional learning and pedagogies. I have a particular concern with doctors' learning in the workplace. My colleague, Janice Malcolm, and I have developed a conceptual framework for exploring pedagogic identities. Within higher education, I am also interested in the relationships between teaching, research and discipline, particularly in relation to learning and knowledge production. I focus on the academic and other workplaces as sites for professional learning and pedagogies, and have been particularly concerned with transitions from learning to work. I have a background in feminist and critical psychology, although now regard myself as an educationalist, rather than a psychologist.
I was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in June 2008, and a three-year University Teaching Fellowship in January, 2008.
External responsibilities
My main appointment is at Birkbeck, University of London, where I am Executive Dean for the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy. I am the Editor of the journal, Studies in the Education of Adults, and am on the Editorial Board of Studies in Continuing Education and Adult Education Quarterly. I am an honorary member of SCUTREA (the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults).
Internal responsibilities
I am a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds and contribute to the Masters in Clinical Education. I supervise research postgraduate students in the School of Education at the University of Leeds.
Current projects
With Professor Trudie Roberts, Sue Kilminster and Naomi Quinton) 'Learning responsibility? Exploring doctors' transitions to new levels of medical responsibility'. ESRC RES-153-25-0084
With Dr Martyn Clarke and Neil Lent Learning and the transtion into work
With the Learning Journeys group Learning health and life journeys
Selected Publications
PAPERS
Malcolm, J. and Zukas, M. (2009). "Making a mess of academic work: experience, purpose, identity". Teaching in Higher Education, 14 (05), 495-506. Read Abstract.
Zukas, M. and Malcolm, J. (2007). "Learning from Adult Education". Academy Exchange, 6, 20-22.
Zukas, M (2006). "Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace: educators' lifelong learning and learning futures". International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2(3), 71-80. (PDF File, 72K).
Bower, S. and Zukas, M. (2005). "Challenging subject specifications". Adults Learning, 7, 22-24.
Malcolm, J. and Zukas, M. (2001). "Bridging pedagogic gaps: conceptual discontinuities in higher education". Teaching in Higher Education, 6, 33-42.
BOOKS
Bradbury, H., Frost, N., Kilminster, S. and Zukas, M. (2009). "Beyond reflective practice: new approaches to professional lifelong learning". Routledge.
CHAPTERS
Zukas, M. and Malcolm, J. (2008). "Pedagogic identities and lifelong learning" in: H. Herzberg (Ed.) Lebenslangen Lernen: Theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Befunde im Kontext der Erwachsenenbildung. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Zukas, M (2007). "Belonging? A (non-American) adult educator's story" in: K. B. Armstrong, L.W.Nabb, A.P.Czech (Ed.) North American adult educators: Phyllis M Cunningham archive of quintessential autobiographies of the 21st century. Phyllis M Cunningham Archive, University of Wyoming.
Zukas, M. and Malcolm, J. (2007). "Teaching, discipline, net-work" in: A. Skelton (Ed.) International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education. Routledge.
Malcolm, J. and Zukas, M. (2007). "Poor relations: exploring discipline, pedagogy and research in academic identity" in: M.Osborne, M. Houston and N.Toman (Ed.) What a difference a pedagogy makes. Routledge.
Malcolm, J. and Zukas, M. (2007). "Moving on up? Academic work and learning after adult education" in: Osborne, M et al (Ed.) CRLL 4th International Conference "The times they are a-changin': researching transitions in lifelong learning". Stirling University.
Malcolm, J. and Zukas, M. (2006). "Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace" in: R. Edwards, J Gallacher and S Whittaker (Ed.) Learning outside the academy: international research perspectives. Routledge.
Extended list of publications.
This page last updated by Miriam Zukas on 8th September 2009