Victoria Cooper (WELS)

Vickie Cooper is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University, co-director of the Children's Research Centre and co-chair of KE206 Making a difference: working with children and young people. 

Vickie graduated from the University of Warwick in 1989 with a BA in psychology and education. She went on to completed her PGCE (primary) at the University of York, and has since taught across a range of ages including early years, primary, further and higher education. While working towards her PhD at the University of Bristol, Vickie was particularly interested in quasi-markets in education and applied the Habermasian principles of lifeworld and systems to analyse the colonisation of education.  Her post-doctoral research broadly falls into either the area of professional development in education, or the area of identity.

Vickie joined the Open University on a part-time basis as an associate lecturer, and has taught a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in social science, education and psychology, including DD100, E835 and ED840. She took up the post of staff tutor in education at the Open University in Birmingham in 2002 and went on to join the Centre for Childhood, Youth and Sport in 2011, where she has chaired a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in education, psychology and childhood studies, including ED840, ED841, E807, EK313 and E124.

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