Dr Max Biddulph

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• workRoom B14 Dearing
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4457
• fax0115 846 6600
• max.biddulph@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Max Biddulph is a lecturer and a member of Centre for Research in Schools and Communities.

In first part of his career, Max worked for twenty six years in a number of secondary schools teaching Personal Social Health Education. Some strong themes that weave through this phase his career are performance, community, and empowerment. In 1983 he co-wrote 'The Liberty Tree' a dramatisation of the Derbyshire rising of 1817, subsequently televised by ITV. Also in the 1980s, following a visit to Lawrence Kohlberg's 'Just Community' project in New York, he experimented with curriculum, pupil voice and empowerment in a local community school setting.

A particular interest that Max has developed in the last twenty years is in the field of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) undertaking research, training and dissemination at a national level focusing on the delivery of SRE to young people in a variety of educational settings including youth work, state and independent education sectors and the care system. Max also has a strong interest in activism and LGBT politics and has a strong interest in sexuality issues in the work place. This stems from his doctoral research into the experiences of gay and bisexual men who are educators.

Research Summary

2009-current Evaluation of Pastoral Care Provision in 4 Secondary Schools: Faith in Families Project, Catholic Childrens Society

2009 - current Derbyshire Health Promoting Schools and the National Healthy Schools: Opening Hearts: Challenging homophobic bullying via the primary school literacy curriculum,

Recent Publications

• and BIDDULPH, M., 2012. Sexualities and citizenship education. In: ARTHUR, J. AND CREMIN, H. EDS., ed., Debates in Citizenship Education Routledge. 100-114
• BIDDULPH, M., 2010. Can Only Dorothy’s Friends Speak for Dorothy?. In: HUBER-WARRING, T, ed., Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes: An Anthology of Educational Research Information Age Publishing.
• BIDDULPH, M., 2008. Stolen Intimacies: (Auto)narratives of MSM, HIV, Spaces and Sexualities Auto/biography Yearbook 2008. 171-193
• BIDDULPH, M, 2008. Opening Hearts: Challenging Homophobia and Homophobic Bullying in the Primary School. An evaluation of the Pilot Study in North Derbyshire Derbyshire Healthy Schools.

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Max is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. His research supervision areas include: Affective experience and education:

• experiential learning
• lifelong personal development
• personal, social, health, citizenship education

Communities as social spaces:

• identity, social space and sexuality
• school ethos and micro-politics

Gender, masculinities and identity:

• working class masculinities and education
• masculinity and sexuality
• intimacy and men's relationships

Queer identities:

• homosexuality, heterosexism, homophobia, heteronormativity and education
• LGBT teachers and students in educational settings

Qualitative research:

• activism
• arts-based methods
• visual methods
• autoethnography
• ethnography
• performance narrative
• validity
• verisimilitude and trustworthiness

Sex and Relationships education:

• practice, context and culture
• HIV/AIDS education

Research topics of current and recent students include:

• Emotional experience as a developmental process in the training of language teachers
• Counselling in higher education contexts

Research proposals: please email Max if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also: School of Education research supervision areas.

Past Research

2006 - 2008: Becoming a Teacher Project: a 6-year (2003-2009) study of teachers' experiences of initial teacher training (ITT), induction and early professional development: co-funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the General Teaching Council (GTC) and the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA).

2009: Derbyshire Health Promoting Schools and the National Healthy Schools: Opening Hearts: Challenging homophobic bullying via the primary school literacy curriculum, Principal investigator evaluation of the pilot study: Department of Health

1999-2001: Promoting Emotional Development in Schools Project: Nottingham City LEA

2000-2001 Centre for the Study of Human Relations Team research project: Evaluating the efficacy of the small group in counsellor training.

Doctoral research, Faculty of Education, Nottingham Trent University Title: Gay and Bisexual Men who are Educators: A Narrative Analysis of Space, Identity and Deployment

Future Research

Researching LGBT teachers experiences and identity management strategies in educational settings

Researching school leaders and inclusive practices vis a vis LGBT issues

Researching sex and relationships education (SRE) acquisition by gay/bisexual men as a lifelong process

Researching the phenomenon of message fatigue in HIV education targeted at gay/bisexual men

Developing an SRE curriculum and practice framework for teaching about same sex sexuality/relationships

Researching SRE pedagogy and curriclum processes in faith schools

Researching responses made by schools to children/young people questioning their gender identity

Researching the ethics of observation and the management / inclusion (?) of data relating to unaware/non-consenting participants

Researching the use of narrative communicated via visual imagery

• and BIDDULPH, M., 2012. Sexualities and citizenship education. In: ARTHUR, J. AND CREMIN, H. EDS., ed., Debates in Citizenship Education Routledge. 100-114
• BIDDULPH, M., 2010. Can Only Dorothy’s Friends Speak for Dorothy?. In: HUBER-WARRING, T, ed., Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes: An Anthology of Educational Research Information Age Publishing.
• BIDDULPH, M., 2008. Stolen Intimacies: (Auto)narratives of MSM, HIV, Spaces and Sexualities Auto/biography Yearbook 2008. 171-193
• BIDDULPH, M, 2008. Opening Hearts: Challenging Homophobia and Homophobic Bullying in the Primary School. An evaluation of the Pilot Study in North Derbyshire Derbyshire Healthy Schools.
• HOBSON, A, MALDEREZ, A, TRACEY, L. HOMER, M, MITCHELL, N, BIDDULPH, M and GIANNAKAKI, M, 2007. Newly Qualified Teachers’ Experiences of their First Year of Teaching (978184775)
• BIDDULPH, M, 2007. Sex and Relationships Education: humanity and empowerment in pastoral care Pastoral Care in Education An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development. 25(3), 2-4
• BIDDULPH, M., 2007. Rules of engagement: boys, young men and the challenge of effective sex and relationships education Pastoral Care in Education An International Journal of Personal, Social, Emotional Development. 25(3), 24-33
• BIDDULPH, M., 2006. Sexualities Equality in Schools: Why Every Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) Child Matters Pastoral Care in Education. VOL 24(NUMBER 2), 15-21
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 2005. The monochrome frame: mural making as methodology for understanding self. In: MITCHELL, C., WEBER, S. and O'REILLY-SCANLON, K., eds., Just who do we think we are?: methodologies for autobiography and self-study in education London: Routledge Falmer. 49-57
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 2004. Review of Frances, G. and Power, P.; Developing Good Practice in Sex and Relationships Education: Guidance and Training for School Governors, Pastoral Care in Education
• BIDDULPH, M., 2003. Counselling for sensitive issues. In: HORNBY, G., HALL, C. and HALL, E., eds., Counselling pupils in schools: skills and strategies for teachers London: RoutledgeFalmer. 119-128
• BIDDULPH, M. and BLAKE, S., 2001. Moving goalposts: setting a training agenda for sexual health work with boys and young men London: Family Planning Association.
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 2001. Counselling and Helping for Sensitive Issues: Working with Sexual Abuse. In: Counselling Skills for Teachers Routledge, London and New York.
• HALL, E., HALL, C., HARRIS, B., HAY, D., BIDDULPH, M. and DUFFY, T., 1999. An evaluation of the long-term outcomes of small-group work for counsellor development British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. VOL 27(NUMBER 1), 99-112
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 1999. Can only Dorothys Friends Speak for Dorothy? Exploring Issues of Biographical Positioning in Qualitative Research with Gay/Bisexual Men Journal of Critical Inquiry into Curriculum and Instruction. 1(3), 28-29
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 1999. <em>Review of</em> Queer Theory in Education British Journal of Educational Psychology. 69(4), 617-619
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 1998. Teaching Sex and Relationships Education in Secondary Schools Sex Education Matters. 16, 1-8
• HALL, E., HALL, C.A., BIDDULPH, R.M., DUFFY, T., HARRIS, B., HAY, D. and , 1997. Group work in counsellor training: An evaluation Counselling Psychology Review. 12(4), 179-186
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 1997. Pink Therapy: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists Working with Gay and Bisexual Clients British Journal of Educational Psychology. 67(1),
• BIDDULPH, R.M., 1997. Professional development and training for practitioners: working with boys and young men. In: Let's hear it for the boys 46-61