Dr Geoff Hayward[back]

Geoff Hayward is a University Lecturer in Education, Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), a Director of the Nuffield 14-19 Review, and co-director of the Oxford Centre for Socio-cultural and Activity Theory (OSAT). He helps coordinate the Higher Education and Professional Learning Research Group and is a fellow of Kellogg College.

Geoff was originally a research biologist, but after undertaking post-doctoral work at the University of Liverpool he decided to become a science teacher in the Further Education sector in Wakefield District College. He was a founder member of the Bath/Macmillan post-16 science education project which led to the publication of a large number of text books. Before returning to Oxford in 1993, Geoff taught at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education where he worked with primary school teachers as they implemented the science National Curriculum. Originally appointed as a science teacher educator, in 1998 Geoff was seconded to work with the ESRC Research Centre SKOPE, becoming Associate Director of that centre in 2003.

In 2003 he was also part of the team that set up the Nuffield 14-19 Review of Education and Training, the most systematic inquiry into this phase of educuation and training undertaken in the last thirty years.  

It was during his five years at Wakefield District College that Geoff became interested in vocational education, and the relationship between formal education and the world of work. It is this interest that he is pursuing through his work in SKOPE and the Nuffield 14-19 Review. His research revolves around three sets of problems:

• The formulation of Vocational Education and Training Policy
• The design of effective Vocational Education and Training learning environments, including qualification design and work-based learning.
• Progression from Vocational Education and Training into Higher Education and the workplace.

These are undertaken as part of a larger research team at the University of Oxford that includes colleagues from the Department of Education and the Department of Economics. Geoff's work involves using both qualitative and quantitative methods, and his work on learning and knowledge transfer is informed by socio-cultural theories of cognition and situated learning. More recently this has led him to an increased interest in issues of knowledge transfer, both through teaching and learning, and through collaborative arrangements for research between Higher Education and the private sector.

Geoff is currently co-directing the following projects:

• Degrees of Success: the Transition from VET into Higher Education, funded by Hefce via the ESRC's Teaching and Learning Research Programme
• An evaluation of the Diploma Design process funded by the Department for Childre, Schools and Families
• The Nuffield 14-19 Review funded by the Nuffiled Foundation
• The ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) funded by the ESRC

He coordinates Theme B of SKOPE's current research programme. In October 2008 he will start work on new SKOPE projects involving:

• A comparative analysis of innovation in teaching and learning in Further Education in Austria, England and Germany
• Analysis of performance management regimes in VET
• The design of VET qualifications

Höschler, M., Hayward, G., Ertl, H. and Dunbar-Godet, H. (forthcoming) The Transition from Vocational Education and Training to Higher Education: a successful pathway? Research Papers in Education.

Hayward, G. and Ertl, H. (forthcoming) VET and the School to Work Transition, in The Elsevier International Encyclopaedia of Education.

Ertl, H. and Hayward, G. (forthcoming) Modularity, in The Elsevier International Encyclopaedia of Education.

Hayward, G. and McNichol, J. (2007) Modular mayhem? The reform of the A level science curriculum in England. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 14(3) 335-351

Hayward, G. (2007) Vocationalism and the decline of vocational learning in England, pp. 91- 112  in Bechel, J.J. and  Fees, K. (eds) Bildung oder Outcome? Herbolzheim: Centaurus.

Leney, T., May, T., Hayward, G. and Wilde, S. (2007) International Comparisons in Further Education. London: DfES

Hayward, G., Hodgson, A., Johnson, J., Keep, E.,  Oancea, A., Pring, R., Spours, K. & Wilde, S. (2006) Nuffield 14-19 Review Annual Report. Oxford: OUDES

Nordman, C. and Hayward, G. (2006) Returns to On-the-Job Training: Do Skill Usage, Tasks and Workstation Matter? Evidence from British Workers. Oxford and Cardiff Universities: SKOPE Research Paper

Hayward, G. (2005) Competencies in Vocational Education and Training: The English Condition. In Ertl, H and Sloane, P. (eds) Kompetenzerwerb und Kompetenzbegriff in der Berufsbildung in Internationaler Perspektive. Paderborn: Eusl -Verlagsgesellschaft

Hayward, G. (2005) Vocationalism and the decline of vocational learning. Berufs und Wirtschaftpädagogik, Volume 7, online at http://www.bwpat.de/

Hayward, G., Hodgson, A., Johnson, J., Keep, E.,  Oancea, A., Pring, R., Spours, K. & Wilde, S. (2005) Nuffield 14-19 Review Annual Report. Oxford: OUDES

Hayward, G. (2005) A systems analysis of the English VET system. London: Learning and Skills Development Agency.

Davies, C. and Hayward, G. (2005) The 14-19 agenda and the use of Digital Technologies. Bristol: NESTAfuture lab

Stasz, C., Hayward, G., Oh, S-A, Wright, S (2005) Outcomes and processes in vocational learning: a review of the literature. London: Learning and Skills Development Agency.

Hayward, G (2004) A Century of Vocationalism. Oxford Review of Education 30 (1) 3-12

Hayward, G and Fernandez, R. (2004) From core skills to key skills: fast forward or back to the future? Oxford Review of Education 30 (1) 117-146.

Hayward, G. and James, S. (eds) (2004) Balancing the Skills Equation: key issues and challenges for policy and practice. Bristol: Policy Press   

Hayward, G. and James, S. (2004) Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities, pp. 1-12 in Hayward, G. and James, S. (eds) Balancing the Skills Equation: key issues and challenges for policy and practice. Bristol: Policy Press

Hayward, G. and Fernandez, R. (2004) Qualifying for a job, pp. 77-100 in Hayward, G. and James, S. (eds) Balancing the Skills Equation: key issues and challenges for policy and practice. Bristol: Policy Press

Hayward, G. and Fernandez, R. (2004) Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system. SKOPE Research paper No. 44. Oxford and Warwicxk Universities: SKOPE

Hayward, G., Hodgson, A., Johnson, J., Keep, E.,  Oancea, A., Pring, R., Spours, K. & Wilde, S. (2004) Nuffield 14-19 Review Annual Report. Oxford: OUDES

Hayward, G., Stevenson, M. and Blyth, M. (2004) Exploring effective educational interventions for young people who offend, pp. 88-108 in Burnett, R. and Roberts, C. (eds.) What works in Probation and Youth Justice: Developing evidence-based practice. Cullompton: Willan Publishishing

James, S. and Hayward, G. (2004) Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning, pp. 219-243 in Hayward, G. and James, S. (eds) Balancing the Skills Equation: key issues and challenges for policy and practice. Bristol: Policy Press

MacMahon, G., Hall, A. Hayward, G., Hudson, C., Roberts, C., Fernandez, R. and Burnett, R. (2004) Basic Skills Programmes in the Probation Service: evaluation of the Basic Skills Pathfinder. London: Home Office.

MacMahon, G., Hall, A. Hayward, G., Hudson, C., and Roberts, C. (2004) Findings - Basic Skills Programmes in the probation service: an evaluation of the basic skills pathfinder. London: Home Office.

Hayward, G., Oh, S-A, Thomas, S. and Goldstein, W. (2002) The PLUS Programme Evaluation: Final Report. (2002) London: YJB

Natale, S., Libertella, A. F. and Hayward, G. (2001) Higher Education in Crisis: The Corporate Eclipse of the University. Binghampton, NY: Global Publications.

Hayward, G. and Sundnes, O (2000) New Wine in Old Bottles? Entrepreneurship Education in Scottish Universities. pp. 112 - 134 in Natale, S., Libertella, A. F. and Hayward, G. (eds) On the Threshold of the Millennium. University Press of America. (2000)

Natale, S., Libertella, A. F. and Hayward, G. (eds) (2000) On the Threshold of the Millennium. New York: University Press of America.

Natale, S., Libertella, A. F. and Hayward, G. (eds) (2000) New Wine in Old Bottles. New York: University Press of America