Staff Profile

Nicki Hedge is a Professor of Education and a member of the People, Place and Social Change Research & Teaching Group. Nicki's research interests and activity centre on the role of affect and emotions in learning and teaching, social justice with particular respect to internationalization and inclusion, gender and identity, the Capabilities Approach, and philosophy as research. Her current project is focussed on emotional wellbeing and compassion.  She teaches, mainly at postgraduate level, research methods and educational theory and is currently supervising doctoral students working on emotions in education, e-learning and distance education, educational change and innovation, gender, identity, and applied linguistics. 

Selected Publications: 

MacKenzie, A., Hedge, N. and Enslin, P. (2017) Sex education: challenges and choices. British Journal of Educational Studies, 65(1), pp. 27-44. (doi:10.1080/00071005.2016.1232363)

Hedge, N. and Mackenzie, A. (2016) Scotland’s curriculum for excellence: a defence of autonomy and personhood. Oxford Review of Education, 42(1), pp. 1-15.(doi:10.1080/03054985.2015.1128890)

Mackenzie, A., Enslin, P. and Hedge, N. (2016) Education for global citizenship in Scotland: reciprocal partnership or politics of benevolence? International Journal of Educational Research, 77, pp. 128-135. (doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2016.03.007)

Hedge, N. and Mackenzie, A. (2015) Riots and reactions: hypocrisy and disaffiliation? Journal of Philosophy of Education, 49(3), pp. 329-346. (doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12132)

Enslin, P., and Hedge, N. (2014) Feminist ethics. In: Phillips, D.C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy. Sage, London, UK. (In Press)

Hedge, N., and Mackenzie, A. (2012) Putting Nussbaum's Capability Approach to work: re-visiting inclusion. Cambridge Journal of Education, 42 (3). pp. 327-344. ISSN 0305-764X (doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2012.706252)

Hedge, N., and Mackenzie, A. (2012) Beyond care? Journal of Philosophy of Education, 46 (2). pp. 192-206. ISSN 0309-8249 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00844.x)

Enslin, P., and Hedge, N. (2010) A good global neighbour: Scotland, Malawi and global citizenship. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 6 (1). pp. 91-105. ISSN 1751-1917 (doi:10.1386/ctl.6.1.91_1)

Enslin, P., and Hedge, N. (2010) Inclusion and diversity. In: Bailey, R., Barrow, R., Carr, D. and McCarthy, C. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. SAGE, London, pp. 385-400.

Enslin, P, and Hedge, Nicki (2008) International students, export earnings and the demands of global justice. Ethics and Education, 3 (2). pp. 105-117. (doi:10.1080/17449640802395984)

Hayward, L., and Hedge, Nicki (2005) Travelling towards change in assessment: policy, practice and research in education. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 12 (1). pp. 55-76. ISSN 0969-594X (doi:10.1080/0969594042000333913)