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Tim has a BA and MA in English Literature from Queen Mary, University of London. He also holds a PGCE from Middlesex University and an MA in Education from UCL. He is currently a doctoral candidate at UCL's Institute of Education. Before leading the BA Hons Primary Education, he was a teacher, senior leader, consultant and advisor in the state sector for twenty-three years. In addition to academic writing, he has published poetry and journalism.

Tim is course leader for the Primary Education BA Hons. He is module leader for 'From Elementary Schooling to "Good" Primary Practice' and 'Teachers, Learners and Schools in the 21st Century'. He is module leader for the MA Education module 'Critical Theory in Education'.

Tim's research is an ethnographically-influenced look at the impact of neoliberal governance on schoolchildren's identities and social reproduction. The theoretical frame is provided by a fusion of Bourdieusian and Lacanian ideas.

• Scott, T (2023) Bourdieu, Lacan and Field Theory: Neoliberal Doxa in the Economic Field. Theory, Culture and Society.

• Scott, T (2023) The End of an Accent. Magma 87, Islands Edition (Eds. Niall Campbell, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Fiona Moore).

• Scott, T (2023) The Reproductive Mechanism. Rialto 100 (Ed. Ella Frears & Will Harris).

• Scott, T (2022) ‘Displacements’ (Winner of Magma Editors’ Prize). Magma, July issue

• Scott, T (2022) ‘The Form of an Armoured Car’ and ‘Dali’s Telephone and the Liberal Left’. Wild Court, July

• Scott, T (2022) ‘It Took the Whole of Irish History to Make Me Anything but Irish’ and ‘Whatever You Say’. Shearsman, April Issue

• Scott, T (2022) 'The Faber Book of Urban Foxes, Shards and Celtic Crosses.' Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Anthology

• Scott, T (2021) 'Gun (Belfast 1974)' (Commended, Magma Editors’ Prize)

• E Hargreaves and T Scott (forthcoming). Look No Further: Inquiring into Learning-Needs as Professional Development. In E Hargreaves and L Rolls, ed, Unlocking Research: Rethinking Professional Development and Learning (Routledge)
  
  
• Scott, T (2018) What H Prays For, Waltham Forest International Poetry Competition
  
  
• Scott, T (2018) Permutations of H’s Head, Waltham Forest International Poetry Competition
  
  
• Scott, T (2016) Looking for a teaching job? Here’s how to avoid a dysfunctional school, The Guardian
  
  
• Scott, T (2016) Secret Teacher: becoming an academy destroyed my school, The Guardian
  
  
• Scott, T (2001) National Schools Film Week, Times Educational Supplement
  
  
• Scott, T (2001) Give it your best shot, Times Educational Supplement 
  
  
• Scott, T (1999) Stairway to heaven, Times Educational Supplement
  
  

Tim Scott
Course Leader in Primary Education
E: t.scott@londonmet.ac.uk