Joe Barber
Senior Lecturer (English)
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
BA (Hons) English
MA English: Literature & Modernity
PGCE Secondary English
Doctor of Education (current doctoral candidate, due to complete Feb 2024)
Consultancy and advisory roles
Membership of OCR’s National Consultative Forum for English Teaching
Membership of professional associations
Membership of NATE (National Association for the Teaching of English)
English Association FE & Secondary Education Committee member
Interests and expertise
After teaching 11-19 English in Great Manchester for 14 years I joined MMU’s Faculty of Education in 2015.
During my time in teaching, I was also an assistant principal and held responsibility for safeguarding and child protection.
My interests are teacher development, subject knowledge and subject pedagogy in English, literary theory as an aspect of English teachers’ practice, teaching grammar, the history of subject English, behaviour. I am also interested in debates around teacher education and training.
Projects
I am currently undertaking doctoral research into student English teachers’ knowledge of literary theory in relation to the teaching of reading.
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
I teach on the secondary and primary PGCE English programmes
Subject areas
Secondary English Education
Research outputs
Barber, J. Overland, E. Sackville-Ford, M. (eds) (2020) Behaviour Management: An Essential Guide for Student Teachers and NQTs (Routledge)
Chapter 4 in Hulme et al (eds) (2021) Mastering Teaching: Thriving as an Early Career Teacher (OUP)
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Overland, E., Barber, J., Sackville-Ford, M. (2020) Behaviour Management: An Essential Guide for Student and Newly Qualified Teachers.. Routledge.
Career history
2019
Winner of ‘Best Personal Tutor’ award (MMU Student Union Awards)
2020
Nominee for ‘Best Employability Support’ award (MMU Student Union Awards)