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Daniel Leyton is a political sociologist of education, with a PhD in Education from the University of Sussex, and Master of Arts in Sociological Research from the University of Essex. He is currently a research associate at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. Previously he was a Lecturer in at the Department of Education Policy, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile.

His work has been focused on class, gender, racial and epistemic inequalities and power within higher education, internationalisation, and academics. 

Selected Publications: 

Leyton, Daniel, and Francisco J Salinas. 2022. “Internationalization and Epistemic Injustice: Circulation of the Real Fiction After Becas Chile.” In Educational Justice: Challenges For Ideas, Institutions, and Practices in Chilean Education, edited by Camila Moyano (In Press).

Hey, Valerie, Sarah Leaney, and Daniel Leyton. 2021. “The Un/Methodology of ‘Theoretical Intuitions’: Resources of Generations Gone Before, Thinking and Feeling Class.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1834953

Leyton, Daniel. 2020. “Neoliberalising Working-Class Subjectification through Affirmative Action Policies: Managerial Leadership and Ontological Coaching in Higher Education.” Journal of Education Policy 00 (00): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2020.1819569

Leyton, Daniel. 2020. “The European Discourse of Inclusion Policies for Roma in Higher Education Racialized Neoliberal Governmentality in Semi-Peripheral Europe.” In The Roma in European Higher Education. Recasting Identities, Re-Imagining Futures, edited by Louise Morley, Andrzej Mirga, and Nadir Redzepi, 57–75. London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109667.0008

Briones-Barahona, Jocelyn, and Daniel Leyton. 2020. “Excepcionalidad Meritocrática y Política de Acción Afirmativa en la Educación Superior en Chile.” Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas 28 (136): 1–31. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5262

Morley, L., Leyton, D., and Hada, Y (2019) The affective economy of internationalisation: migrant academics in and out of Japanese higher education. Policy Reviews in Higher Education 3(1), 51–74 https://doi.org/10.1080/23322969.2018.1564353

Leyton, D., & Rojas, M. T. (2017) Middle-class mothers’ passionate attachment to school choice: abject objects, cruel optimism and affective exploitation. Gender and Education, 29(5), 558–576.https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1324130