President

Jonathan Doney is a senior lecturer in Education policy and History of Education at the University of Exeter, where he oversees all of the doctoral programmes for the faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the development of Statement Archaeology, his operationalisation of Foucault’s historical methodology, which he applies in the areas of the history of educational policy processes in England and Scandinavia. He also works on close-to-practice research in the field of Religious Education, and was recently awarded the Kevin Brehony prize for his monograph Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology (Routledge 2019). He has previously been co-editor of The History of Education Researcher, ‘Sources and Interpretations’ editor for History of Education, and Treasurer for the society.