Jon Prosser

Education
1966 - 1969 B.Ed. (2.1) University of Bristol, (Honours, Mathematics Education)
1969 - 1972 B.A. (2.1) Fine Art, Birmingham School of Art (Honours).
1975 - 1976 M.A. (Applied Research in Education), Centre for Applied Research in
Education, University of East Anglia.
1985 - 1988 D.Phil., Department of Educational Studies, University of York.

Employment
2000 - present Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader, International Education Management, School of Education, University of Leeds
1996 - 2000 Lecturer, Education Management and Research Methods, Leader Taught Doctorate programme, Faculty of Education Studies, University of Southampton.
1992 - 1996 Senior Lecturer, Head of Postgraduate Training, Westminster College, Oxford.
1991 - 1992 Lecturer, Education Management, Westminster College, Oxford.
1988 - 1991 Research Fellow, Westminster College, Oxford.
1983 - 1985 Director of Training, Safety and Rescue. New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme. Dept for Science and Industry, Ross Dependency, Antarctica.
1980 - 1983 Roncalli College, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand. High School Teacher, Head of Mathematics.
1978 - 1980 Timaru College, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand. High School Teacher (Head of Mathematics).
1977 - 1978 Huntley College, Huntley, Waikato, New Zealand. High School Teacher (mathematics).
1972 - 1975 Lecturer, Industrial Society Management Training Centre, Brathay Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK.

Publications

1 Books
1. Prosser, J (Editor), (1998) Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers. Falmer Press, London

2. Bryant, I., Prosser, J., Swan, J., Weare, W., (1998) Development and Change in Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Educational Studies, University of Southampton, UK.

3. Prosser, J (Editor), (1999) School Culture. Paul Chapman Publications. London.

2 Parts of Books
4. Prosser, J. (1998) Introduction. Imaged Based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers. Editor. J Prosser, Falmer Press, London, pp 1-5.

5. Prosser J. (1998) The Status of Image Based Research. Imaged Based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers. Ed. J Prosser, Falmer Press, London.

6. Prosser J., with Schwartz, D (1998) Photographs within the Sociological Research Process. In Imaged Based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers. Editor, J Prosser, Falmer Press, London.

7. Prosser, J. (1999) La costruzione di una metalodogia qualitativa basata sulle immagini. In Faccioli, P., Harper, D. Mondi da Vedere. Milan. FrancoAngeli. pp 87-98.

8. Prosser J. (1999) The Evolution of School Culture Research. In School Culture, J Prosser, (Editor) Paul Chapman Publishing, London.

9. Prosser J., Warburton, J (1999) Visual Sociology and School Culture. In School Culture, Ed. J Prosser, Paul Chapman Publishing, London.

10. Prosser, J (2000) The Moral Maze of Image Ethics. Helen Simons and Robin Usher (Editors) Situated Ethics in Educational Research. Routledge. London.

11. Prosser J., with Schwartz, D (2003) Photographs within the Sociological Research Process. In S. Hesse-Biber (Editor) Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press.

12. Prosser, J (2005) The Moral Maze of Image Ethics, In Sheehy, K., Nind, M., Simmons, K., Values into Practice: Ethics and Research in Inclusive Education. Routledge. pp 133-149.

13. Prosser, J. (2006) The Darker Side of Visual Research. David Hamilton (Editor), Chapter 32, Visual Research Methods. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series. Sage. London, pp 252-276.

14. Prosser, J. and Schwartz, D. (2006) Photographs and Sociological Research. Hamilton, D. (Editor), Chapter 62, Visual Research Methods. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series. Sage. London, pp 133- 154.

15. Prosser, J (2006) What Constitutes an Image-based Methodology? Hamilton, D. (Editor) Visual Research Methods. Sage, Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series. Sage. London.
16. Prosser, J., and Burke, C (2007) Childlike perspectives through image-based educational research in: J. G. Knowles, A. Cole (Editors.) Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples and Issues. Oxford University Press.
17. Burke, C., Gallagher, C., Prosser, J., Torrington, J. (2007) The View of the Child: explorations of the visual culture of the made environment. Design for the 21st Century. Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council, London.

3a Papers in refereed journals
18. Prosser, J. (1989) Performance Indicators in Education, Journal for the Study of Comprehensive Education, Vol.2, No.1, Autumn 1989. pp 14-19.

19. Prosser, J. (1992) Personal Reflections on the Use of Photography in an Ethnographic Case Study, British Educational Research Association Journal, Vol.18, No.4, 1992.

20. Prosser, J. (1995) A Case Study of a UK Family Wrongly Accused of Child Abuse, Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, Vol.7, No.3.

21. Prosser J. (1995) An Ethnographic Case Study Approach to Studying the Process of Child Abuse Investigation in the United Kingdom, Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, Vol.7, No.3.

22. Prosser, J. (1996) What Constitutes an Image-based Methodology? Visual Sociology. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp 31-54.

23. Prosser, J. (1998) The Visual Representation of School Culture. Communication and Cognition. Vol. 31, No 2/3.

24. Prosser, J. (2001) Visual Sociology to Visual Studies. Visual Sociology. Vol. 16, No. 2. International Visual Sociology Association, pp 1 - 6.
25. Prosser, J. (2006). Changing Culture: Improving Curriculum Leadership. Curriculum Management Update, February, pp 3 - 6.
26. Prosser, J. and Wilson, M., (2006). Case Study: Transforming the Culture of Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College. Curriculm Leadership Update, February, pp 7 - 10.
27. Prosser, J. (2007) Visual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools, Visual
Studies, Routledge, London. Vol. 22, No. 1, pp 13 - 30.

28. Prosser, J., and Loxley, A. (2007) Enhancing the Contribution of Visual Methods to Inclusive Education, Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs. Routledge, London. Vol. 7, No 1, pp 55-68.

29. Visual mediation of critical illness: an autobiographical account of nearly dying and nearly living. Visual Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, Routledge, London, pp 185 - 199.

3b 30. Prosser, J. (1999) Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, policy and practice by John Smyth and Geoffrey Shacklock, Routledge, London (1998), 223 -5 pp, ISBN: 0-415-18691-9. Extended Book Review for Journal of Education Policy, Vol. 16, No 2. Taylor & Francis, London. pp 78 -81.

31. Prosser, J. (2002) Editorial introduction to new journal. Visual Studies. Vol. 17, No. 1. Routledge, London, pp1 - 2.

32. Book Review: 'Doing Visual Ethnography' by Sarah Pink. Qualitative Research. Vol. 7, No. 4, Sage, London, (2007).

4 Research Reports and Reviews
33. Training in a Harsh Environment, Dept for Science and Industry, New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme. Christchurch, New Zealand (1982), 83 pages.

34. Oxfordshire Education Authority's Performance Indicator Project: An Evaluation. Oxfordshire Education Authority, Oxford (1990), 46 pages.

35. The National Children's Home Complaints Procedure Project; An Evaluation. National Children's Home, London, (1990), (67pages).

36. An Evaluation of EATE. Initial Teacher Education. Enterprise and Teacher Education Project, Department of Education and Science. London, (1991), 62 pages.

37. TVEI and Initial Teacher Education. Technical and Vocational Education Training Agency, London, (1991).

38. Voice of the Child in Care's Independent Representative Scheme; An Evaluation. Voice of the Child in Care, London, (1993), 76 pages.

39. Child Abuse: The Families Perspective. Parents Against Injustice/British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, London (1993), 81 pages.

40. Personal Competency in Higher Education (Joint Project with University of Nottingham), Department for Employment, London. (1992), 114 pages.

41. Becoming a School and the Development of School Culture. ERIC. Resources in Education. Clearinghouse on Educational Management (EA 024 016), University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, (1992) 15 pages.

42. Exploring Young People's Lives: Using Visual Methods within a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Study. Report on Conference Proceedings. Second International Qualitative Research Conference, 'Cultural Complexities of Qualitative Research', Universidad de Guanajuato, Escuela de Idiomas, Mexico, (2007).

43. Introduction Visual Methods. Course book for 'Building Capacity in Visual Methods', ESRC Researcher Development Initiative. Leeds University (Editor, contributed 3 chapters) (2007), 102 pages.

Research Grants
1988-1989: Evaluating Oxfordshire LEA Performance Indicator Systems, Oxfordshire LEA £15,000, Principal Investigator.

1988- 1989: Classroom Processes. Consultancy Contract No. 638, ECT 4/701 Course Materials. Deakin University Press, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. £1,500. Individual award.
1989-1990: Evaluating EATE: Initial Teacher Education, £12,000, Department for Education and Employment. Principal Investigater.
1989-1991: TVEI and Initial Teacher Education, £16,000,Technical and Vocational Training Board, Principal Investigator.
1990-1993: Independent Representation of Children in Care: an evaluation of National Children's Homes, £18,000, Voice of the Child in Care, Principal Investigator.
1991-1993: Child Abuse: the family's perspective, £12,000, British Broadcasting Corporation. Principal Investigator.
1993-1995: Personal Competency in Higher Education, £10,000, Department for Employment, Principal Investigator.
1998-1999 The Visual Culture of Schooling. Faculty of Educational Studies, Southampton University, £2,500. Individual award.
2001-2002 British Academy International Conference grant, £950 Annual conference, American Education Research Association, New Orleans. Individual award.
2000-2002: Visual Evidence: The Use of Images in Social and Cultural Research, ESRC, Research Methods Seminar Competition, £15,000: Co- director with Peter Hamilton (Open University) and Robert Walker (University of East Anglia).
2005 - 2007 The View of the Child: Visual Culture and the Made Environment. Designing for 21st Century Research Programme. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council + Arts and Humanities Research Council £50,161 Judith Torrington Principal Investigator. Joint Leeds/Sheffield University. Co-applicant.
2005-2008: Real Life Methods, a node of the National Centre for Research Methods. ESRC. £902,000 (£487,322 to Leeds). Joint Manchester University/Leeds University. Jennifer Mason Principal Investigator, Member of the Executive Committee, visual methodologist on all four node projects, and make a significant contribution to the Research Training Programme. Co-applicant.
2006-2009: 'Building Capacity in Visual Methods', £102,000 FEC, Researcher Development Initiative, National Centre for Research Methods', ESRC. Principal Investigator.

Selected Invited Speaker and Keynotes
Prosser, J (1996) Images in Educational Research - Key Issues in Constructing a Methodology. British Educational Research Conference: Visual Methodology, University of Lancaster.

Prosser, J (2000) The Darker Side of Visual Research. ESRC 'Visual Evidence' Seminar Series (Keynote), Visual Evidence: Uses and Abuses, International Seminar Series. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Prosser, J. (2002) Visual Research in Education: Methodological Innovations. Lead speaker, international seminar, 'Methodological Challenges of Image-based Research'. Annual conference, American Education Research Association, New Orleans, convened by S. Weber Concordia University and C. Mitchell. McGill University, Canada.

Prosser, J. (2004) Widening Participation: Visual Indicators of Inclusive Practice.
ESRC, Masterclass Seminar, 'Problematising Methodology in Access Research', University of Exeter.

Prosser, J. (2005) Visual Ethics and Educational Research. Warwick Institute of Education, University of Warwick.

Bagnoli, A, Irwin, S., Prosser, J, (2006) Researching Young Lives over Time with Numbers, Words and Images. ESRC Seminar, National Centre for Research Methods. Annual conference British Educational Research Association, Warwick University, UK.

Prosser, J. (2007) The Visual Culture of Schools. Keynote address, Annual Conference of the National Arts Education Association of Canada, Public Lecture, Edmonton City Hall, Alberta, Canada

Prosser, J. (2007) Training in Innovative Methods: A Strategy for Capacity Building. ESRC Research Development Initiative Conference ~ 'Developing the Researcher', Royal College of Physicians, London.

Prosser, J (2007) Visual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools. School of Education, Communications and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Prosser, J. (2007) Visual mediation of critical illness: an autobiographical account of nearly dying and nearly living. 'Creating Visual Knowledge' seminar. Real Life Methods, a node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, Manchester University. UK.

Prosser, J. (2007) Visual Methods and New Age Research. Centre for Policy on Ageing, Open University. UK.

Selected International Conference Contributions - Refereed

Prosser, J. School Ethos - Five Questions, International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement. Cardiff, UK, 1991

Prosser, J. Complaints Procedures in Residential Institutions and the Effect of Social Climate, European Scientific Congress for Residential Care, Amsterdam, Holland, 1991

Prosser, J. Child Abuse - The Families Perspective, International Congress for Research in Family Education, Paris, France, 1991

Prosser, J. School Climate and Effectiveness, International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Canada, 1992.

Prosser, J. Becoming a School and the Development of School Culture, International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Canada, 1992.

Prosser, J. Using Images within a Qualitative Research Process, Annual Conference, International Visual Sociology Association, Bologna, Italy, 1996.

Prosser, J. The Visual Culture of High Schools. Annual Conference, International Visual Sociology Association, Boston, USA, 1997.

Prosser, J. Images as Evidence in Educational Research. International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Belgium, 1998.

Prosser, J. Armchair Theorising, Visual Ethnography and Knowledge.
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 1999.

Prosser, J., Chaplin, E. Visual Sociology as a Way of Exploring School Culture, International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference, Salt institute of Documentary Studies, Portland, Maine USA. 2000.

Prosser, J Applied Image-based Research: a middlebrow tart? Creative research Methods in Sociology Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 2001.

Prosser, J. Interpreting Visual Data: Cultural Inventory. Annual Conference, International Visual Sociology Association, Sardinia, Italy, (2002).

Prosser, J., Loxley, A. Applied Visual Research in Education: School Playgrounds as Contested Space. Annual Conference, International Visual Sociology Association, Southampton, UK, 2003.

Prosser, J. Visual Evidence of the Culture of Schooling, European Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2005.

Prosser, J. A Visually Mediated Auto/biographical Study of Nearly Dying and Nearly Living. International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, 2005.

Prosser, J. Contemporary Empirical Visual Methods: 'Seeing' Research. Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2005.

Prosser, J. Content Analysis of Cultural Inventories. Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 2005.

Prosser, J. The Moral Maze of Image Ethics. Open Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 2005.

Prosser, J. The Multiple Visual Cultures of Schools, Faculty of Education. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 2005.

Prosser, J. Visual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools. Annual Conference, International Visual Sociology Association, University of Urbino, Italy. 2006.

Prosser, J. Bagnoli, A. Exploring Young People's Lives: Using Visual Methods within a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Study. Second International Qualitative Research Conference, 'Cultural Complexities of Qualitative Research', University of Guanajuato, Mexico. 2007.

Doctoral supervision: 26 past doctoral students and currently supervise five (all Education Management).

Membership of professional organisations
British Educational Research Association
European Educational Research Association.
British Sociological Association.
Royal Anthropological Institute.
International Visual Sociology Association
American Education Research Association

Editorships:
Visual Sociology. International Visual Sociology Association (1999- 2001).
Visual Studies Routledge, Taylor and Francis (2001 - 2002).

External academic posts:
Member of the International Board for Visual Studies at the University of Houston, USA.
Committee member of 'Visual Sociology Study Group' of the British Sociological Association. UK.

Service on academic and other research-related bodies:
Reviewer, Canadian Economic and Social Research Council (2001-)
Reviewer, Economic and Social Research Council of South Africa (2002 - )

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