Dr John Richard Gibbins

Qualifications:

BSc (Economics) Government: Honours (London) 1967
MA (Social Sciences) Politics (Dunelm) 1969
PhD (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) 1988
FBA (Fellow of the British Academy) (1989-1992)

Present Position:

Director of Postgraduate Skills Development, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Sciences, Agriculture and Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Date appointed 2004.

Recent Previous Position

Principal Lecturer in Research Management, University of Teesside 1999- 2004

Staff Tutor in Research, Centre for Learning Quality and Education, University of Teesside (Leader for Supervisor Training and Researcher Development)

Membership of Professional Bodies

Political Studies Association: Britain (1973-present)

Oxford Political Theory Group (1978-present)

The British Academy (1989-1992)

Wolfson College, Cambridge, Senior Member, (1989-present)

Trinity College, Cambridge, Visiting Archivist (1990-1992)

Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scholar (1990-1992)

European Consortium for Political Research, (Steering Committee Member/Liaison Officer)

European Science Foundation (Project Group Member)

Recent Publications from 1990

a) Books and Articles

'Mill, Liberalism and Progress' in Victorian Liberalism edited by Richard
Bellamy, Methuen, 1990, pp 91-109

Contemporary Political Culture: Politics in a Postmodern Age, Sage, 1989, edited and introduced by John Gibbins, pp 266 paper and hardback

'Conservatism, Utilitarianism and Social Policy' in The Utilitarian Response:
Essays on the contemporary viability of utilitarianism as a political philosophy, edited by Lincoln Allison, Sage, 1990, pp 120-139

'Liberalism, Nationalism and Idealism' in History of European Ideas, 15.
Nationalism, edited by Richard Bellamy, Pergamon Press, 1992, pp 491-497

‘Postmodernism’, Chapter 10 in The Impact of Values, edited by Jan
van Deth in a five volume series entitled Beliefs in Government, Oxford
University Press, 1995, edited by Max Kaase and Kenneth Newton, with Bo
Reimer, pp 301-331

‘Postmodernism’, Second edition of above 1998

‘John Grote and Modern Cambridge Philosophy’, Philosophy, 73, pp 453-477,
1998 (Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy)

‘Sexuality and the Law’ in The Politics of Sexuality, edited by Veronique Mottier and Terell Carver, Routledge, 1998, pp 36-45

‘Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Social Policy’ in Postmodernism and the Fragmentation of Welfare, edited by John Carter, Routledge, 1998, pp 31-48

The Politics of Postmodernity, with Bo Reimer, Sage, 1999, pp 204, paper and hardback

‘Constructing Knowledge in mid-Victorian Cambridge: The Moral Sciences Tripos 1850-70’, in Teaching and Learning in Victorian Cambridge, ed. Jon Smith and Chris Stray, Boydell & Brewster, 2001, pp 61-88

‘Political Philosophy without Foundations and Anti-foundational Politics’ in
Political Issues for the Twenty First Century, ed. D. Moreland and M. Cowling, Ashgate, 2004, pp 13-46

‘Old Studies and New: The Organization of Knowledge In University Curriculum’ in The Organization of Knowledge, ed Martin Daunton, British Academy Press, 2004

‘In the Field: Some Ethical Dilemas in Researching Sexualities’, in Making Sense of Sexual Consent, ed. M.Cowling and P. Reynolds, Ashgatge, 2004, pp 255-271

‘Ethics for Higher Education’, Online Development Units for the Council for Industry and Higher Education, CIHE, 2006
Part 1 – Generic Training for the implementation of the CIHE Document on Ethics matters: Managing Ethical issue in Higher Education.
Part 2 - Training Stakeholders for Research Ethics.

‘Origins of Armstrong College: From College of Physical Science to Armstrong College’, in Newcastle University: Past, Present and Future, Third Millennium, London, 2006 pp 12-16

John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Ideas, Imprint Academic, Exeter, July 2007, pp 526

b) Intended publications

‘Designing Knowledge: The Moral Sciences in Cambridge, Dublin,
Edinburgh, London and Oxford, 1830-1880, History of Universities, 2008

c) Recent Professional Body Workshop Direction and Presentations

‘Motivating Stakeholders’, London Hub of UK Grad, London, 2005

‘Motivating Stakeholders’ Good Practice Event Manager and Plenary Paper, YNE UK Grad Hub, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005

Good Practice in Research Ethics for Research Managers and Postgraduate Research Supervisors, UKCGE Workshop Director and Plenary Presentation, London, 2005

‘Governance, Research Ethics and Ownership’, Paper to the Society for Research in Higher Education, Physics Institute, London, 2006

‘Collaborations and Partnerships: Building and Maintaining’, Training Day for Staff and Postgraduates, York University, 2006

‘Governance, Research Ethics and Ownership’ Training Day for Staff and Postgraduates, York University, 2006

Good Practice in Research Ethics for Research Managers and Postgraduate Research Supervisors, UKCGE Workshop Director and Plenary Presentation, Leeds, 2006

‘Measuring Impact: Issues and Opportunities’, Plenary Presentation, UK Grad YNE Hub Good Practice Event, Sheffield, 2006

‘Learning by Doing’, Presentation to Annual Roberts Forum, Manchester, 2007.

d) Recent Conference Papers

1) ‘Postmodernism and Values’, European Science Association Conference, Strasbourg, June 1993, with Bo Reimer

2) ‘Lifestyles and Values’, European Science Association Conference
Strasbourg, June 1993, with Bo Reimer

3) ‘Victorian Representations and Representations of Victorians:
Constructions of Sexuality in Victorian Cartoons’, British Sociological
Association Conference on Sexualities in a Social Context, Preston, March 1994

4) ‘Value Change, New Politics and Postmodenism’, Conference on Political Cultures and Cultural Politics, Lancaster, July 1994

5)‘Value Change, Postmodernism and the Professions’, Girona, June 1995

6)‘The Body as Politics: Discourses of Politics, Sexuality and the Law’
European Consortium for Political Research Workshops, Oslo 1996

7)‘Postmodernism, Values and Welfare’ paper to be presented at the Conference on Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare, University of
Teesside, September 1997

8) ‘Postmodernism and Cultural Studies, paper presented to the Conference on Cultural Studies, Open University, Leeds, December 1996

9) ‘Social Policy and Citizenship in Postmodernity’, paper presented to the Conference on Welfare State, Fifty Years of Progress, Ruskin College, Oxford, December 1997

10) ‘The Construction of Knowledge in Victorian Cambridge: The Moral Sciences Tripos’, Paper presented to the Conference on Teaching and Learning in C19th Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, March 1999

11) ‘The Principles for a Postmodern Cosmopolitan Political Morality’, Paper presented to the Conference workshop on International Distributive Justice, ECPR Annual Joint Workshops, MZES, Mannheim, March 1999-06-11

12) ‘The Future of the Profession of Political Science’, paper presented to the Political Studies Association Annual Conference, March 1999

13) ‘Ethical Problems in Researching Sexualities, Problems of Consent’, Conference on Problems of Sexual Consent, Edge hill College, 30th June 2000

14) Restorative Justice’, Teesside Criminology Society, Teesside University, 2004.

e) Encyclopaedia and Dictionary Entries

John Grote (philosopher) in the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, with Bart Schultz, 1998 (on line edition available)

John Grote in the New Dictionary of National Bibliography, 2005

John Venn (logician) in the New Dictionary of National Bibliography, 2005

Joseph Mayor (philosopher and classicist) in the New Dictionary of National Bibliography DNB, 2005

Research Supervision
Several successful completions 1997-2005

Achieving and Editing

Visiting Archivist of the Grote/Major papers for Teresa Lady Rothschild and Trinity College Cambridge, 1990-1995 The Catalogue is now complete in the Wren Library

Co-founder, Editorial Board Member, Books Reviews Editor, Theory, Culture and Society, 1982-1989