Professor Anna Traianou

Staff details

Professor Anna Traianou

Position

Professor

Department

Educational Studies

Email

a.traianou (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Anna Traianou is Professor of Education

Anna Traianou is Professor of Education and the Director of the Centre for Identities and Social Justice. She has published extensively on learning and pedagogy and about questions of social research ethics. Her publications include 'Understanding Teacher Expertise in Primary Science: a sociocultural approach' (2006) and 'Ethics in Qualitative Research: Controversies and Contexts’ (Sage, 2012) co-written with Martyn Hammersley.

More recently, she has worked on education policy and co-edited with Ken Jones Austerity and the Remaking of European Education (2019). With funding from the British Academy (2019-2022) she researched the period of structural adjustment in Greece (2010-2018) and the role of social actors, including political parties and trade unions in education reform.

Her current project, funded by the National Education Union (NEU), focuses on teachers’ curriculum autonomy.

Teaching and supervision

Professor Anna Traianou's areas of doctoral supervision include:

  • education policy, with a focus on the interplay between supranational policy influence and national traditions;
  • learning and teacher ‘expertise’ in contemporary policy and politics;
  • research ethics as situated practice

She teaches on the following programmes:

Research interests

• culture, learning and teacher ‘expertise’ in contemporary policy and politics
• the contestation of education policy in contemporary Europe, austerity and the changing form of the education state
• philosophical perspectives on ethics and their implications for the autonomy of the researcher

Publications and research outputs

Book

Hammersley, Martyn and Traianou, Anna. 2012. Ethics in Qualitative Research: Controversies and Contexts. London: SAGE. ISBN 9780857021410

Traianou, Anna. 2006. Understanding Teacher Expertise in Primary Science: a sociocultural approach. Sense Publishers. ISBN 9077874887

Edited Book

Traianou, Anna and Jones, Ken, eds. 2019. Austerity and the Remaking of European Education. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350028487

Book Section

Traianou, Anna and Jones, Ken. 2019. Austerity and the Remaking of Education Policy in Europe since 2008. In: Anna Traianou and Ken Jones, eds. Austerity and the Remaking of European Education. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 5-28. ISBN 9781350028487

Traianou, Anna. 2019. Greece: Towards ‘Europeanisation’? In: Anna Traianou and Ken Jones, eds. Austerity and The Remaking of European Education. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350028487

Jones, Ken and Traianou, Anna. 2019. Conclusion: The Contested European Educational Space. In: Anna Traianou and Ken Jones, eds. Austerity and the Remaking of European Education. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350028487

Article

Traianou, Anna. 2024. The issue of ’vulnerability’ in researching political elites. Education Inquiry, ISSN 2000-4508

Traianou, Anna and Hammersley, Martyn. 2024. Interrogating the Concept of ‘Vulnerability’ in Social Research Ethics. Diametros – A Journal of Philosophy, ISSN 1733-5566

Traianou, Anna. 2023. After the last good year: trade unions and educational reform in Greece. Globalisation, Societies and Education, ISSN 1476-7724

Report

Traianou, Anna and Hammersley, Martyn. 2007. Ethics and Educational Research, London: Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). Project Report. Teaching and Learning Research Programme.