Professor Brian Hudson

National Teaching Fellow 2004 Institution at the time of Award: Sheffield Hallam University. Brian Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education and Social Work (2012-16) at the University of Sussex. He is Guest Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Karlstad University in Sweden where he works with the ROSE research group - 'Research on Subject-specific Education'. Currently he is a Co-Investigator for the KOSS Network: "Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education” supported through an Educational Sciences network grant (2018-03603) from the Swedish Research Council (2019-2022). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, a member of the board of the Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) network and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He was awarded honorary membership of EERA Network 27 Didactics – Learning and Teaching in 2016 and a National Teaching Fellowship in 2004. Formerly he was the main organiser of the WERA Network on Didactics – Learning and Teaching. Previously he has held professorial posts at Sheffield Hallam University, Umeå University in Sweden, and the University of Dundee. Before entering Higher Education, he was a secondary school teacher of mathematics for fifteen years working in comprehensive schools, including five years as Head of Mathematics in an 11-18 high school. He is co-editor with Marylin Leask and Sarah Younie of "Education System Design: Foundations, Policy Options and Consequences" published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group in 2021. Also, he is co-editor with Niklas Gericke, Christina Olin-Scheller and Martin Stolare of "International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum: Epistemic Quality across School Subjects" (2022) and of "International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice" (2022) both published by Bloomsbury Publishing.