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Ruth Unsworth joined the School of Education as a Lecturer in Education Studies in January 2025. As a qualified teacher since 2004, she has held various teaching, leadership, and advisory roles in primary education both in the UK and internationally. From 2016 to 2023, Ruth worked on her PhD at Durham University while serving as a school leader in Tokyo and as a teacher educator at York St John University. Her research interests focus on philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives in education, with a particular emphasis on new materialism, exploring how education practices are imagined and constituted. Ruth's current projects include a sole authorship book titled "Socio-materialism: A Study of Classroom Practices" for Bloomsbury's Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research series and co-editing the BERA Guide on Place-Responsive Pedagogy and Outdoor Learning. Additionally, she is part of the organizing committee for the annual Oxford Ethnography Education Conference and is a member of the International Teacher Education Research Collective (ITERC). Her empirical research is largely ethnographic, providing a detailed view of lived experiences within educational settings, while her theoretical interests encompass both Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and post-structuralist philosophies of education.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow
Ruth teaches Masters level courses in Education Studies and supervises dissertation work.