Professor Brianna L. Kennedy
- Professor of Education (School of Education)
telephone:
01413303487
email:
Brianna.Kennedy@glasgow.ac.uk
University of Glasgow, St. Andrew's Building, N404, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH
Biography
Brianna L. Kennedy is Professor of Education and Joint Director of the Centre for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS). She is also Lead for Teaching-Focused Research and Strategic Hub Development for the Scottish Government's Centre for Teaching Excellence (CfTE). Professor Kennedy came to academia after teaching middle school for the Los Angeles Unified School District in California, where she faced the daily challenge of meeting the needs of a mostly immigrant population of students who were not being well served by the policies, processes, and practices of schooling. She completed her PhD at the University of Southern California where she learned to rigorously examine how teachers could meet the needs of marginalized students. She then served on the faculties of the University of Florida and Utrecht University, where she prepared teachers, facilitated educators' engagement in improving professional practice, and taught in bachelor, master, and doctoral programs. Her personal website contains more information about her work.
Research interests
Professor Kennedy studies the marginalization and belonging of students from nondominant social backgrounds with a particular focus on educational and school policy and classroom teaching. As a former middle school teacher, she prioritizes the bridging of theory, research, and practice, and she investigates and develops appropriate inquiry approaches to do so. A growing strand of her research focuses on how educators understand, learn about, enact, and reflect upon marginalization and belonging in schools since educator learning is a key lever for transformative change in schools. Professor Kennedy has developed additional lines of research in qualitative inquiry and the scholarship of teaching and learning. In each of these lines of research, she prioritizes the reimagining and reworking of education and schooling toward social justice. You can learn more about her vision for the future of her research here.
Professional activities & recognition
Editorial boards
- 2023: Frontiers in Education: Associate Editor
- 2021: Urban Education
Professional & learned societies
- 2020: , International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement
- 2018: , World Educational Research Association
- 2005: , American Educational Research Association
- 1998: , Association for Middle Level Education
