Dr Jason Eyre

I am a Senior Lecturer in Learning Development based in the Centre for Learning and Study Support at De Montfort University. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) and a DMU Teacher Fellow. I have worked in higher education in Australia, the USA and the UK. I have extensive professional experience as a librarian, and have worked in private sector architecture and design practices as a quality manager. Broadly speaking, my interest is in learning and the context in which it takes place, adopting philosophical and qualitative approaches to enquiry. My work has recurring themes of power, connectivity, temporality, relationality, space, generational exchange and the possibilities for love and wonder. 

• Eyre, J. Learning Development in Higher Education: Crisis, Practice, and Power in the 21st Century University. ‘Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives’ series. New York: Springer. (forthcoming 2025/26)
• Eyre, J. and Slawson, T. (2023) ‘Chapter One: Theory in Learning Development: We are all players’. In 'How to be a Learning Developer in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives, Community and Practice' (edited by Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley). London: Routledge
• Eyre, J. and Slawson, T. (2018) ‘Dramatising Learning Development: towards understanding without definition’. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education Special Edition: ALDinHE Conference 2018
• Eyre, J (2018). ‘Time/Lapse: Emerson’s Nature and Deleuze’s Movement Image’. Proceedings of International Frontiers in Education and Research, "Philosophy, Film and Education”. (Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, December 2017).
• Eyre, J (2017) ‘Newtonian Physics: Interior and Exterior in Nicholas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth’. Proceedings of International Frontiers in Education and Research, "The anxieties of inclusion." (Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, December 2016).
• Eyre, J (2015) Institutional management of peer-led learning: a framework for holistic integration. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education Special Edition: Academic Peer Learning, November 2015

• Philosophy of Education
• Learning Development
• Peer Learning
• Academic Practice
• Disciplinarity 

• Academic Writing
• Peer Learning
• Good Academic Practices

• 2020: Doctor of Philosophy, UCL Institute of Education. Thesis title: The Crisis of Practice: Deleuze and Learning Development in UK Higher Education (passed with no corrections)
• 2013: MA Education Practice, De Montfort University. Dissertation title: Referencing and citation practices in the social sciences: an Actor Network investigation (passed with distinction).
• 2011: PG Cert Higher Education, De Montfort University
• 1996: PG Diploma Information Management and Librarianship Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne
• 1993: Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland. Majors in Philosophy and English

I teach on the DMU Library Open Programme and in-curriculum inputs on a variety of courses, particularly in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities

• Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) since 2019 (Fellow since 2013)
• Member, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB)
• Member, Association of Learning Developers in Higher Education (ALDinHE)
• Eligible for Chartered Membership (MCLIP) of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Invited Talks:

• Holding it all together: The broader context of academic integrity and support for students at DMU. Academic Integrity Conference, Niels Brock College/De Montfort University, Leicester, June 2024 – invited keynote address.

• The Role of Learning Development: Connecting content knowledge to transferable skills. Medical Education Innovation Research Centre, Imperial College London, April 2019 - invited staff development talk.
• Dramatising Learning Development: towards understanding without definition. Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) Seminar Series, UCL Institute of Education, January 2019 – invited paper.
• Support for students in practice education: the PITSTOP project revisited. Social Work Practice Education Conference, De Montfort University, 13 March 2014 – invited keynote address.
• Keeping up the Dialogue. Information Literacy as a Graduate Attribute one day conference, University of West London, 12 December 2011 – invited paper.

Selected Conference Papers:

• Learning as Seizure: Expressions and Implications in the Marketised Academy (paper). (Post)Humanism in the Accelerated Academy conference, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, November 2018
• Dramatising Learning Development: towards understanding without definition (workshop). Co- delivered with Tracy Slawson. Association of Learning Developers in Higher Education (ALDinHE) conference, University of Leicester, March 2018
• Time/Lapse: Emerson’s Nature and Deleuze’s Movement Image (lecture and discussion) International Frontiers in Education and Research, "Philosophy, Film and Education”. Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, December 2017.
• Immanence in Learning (paper). Institute for Education Futures Seminar, De Montfort University, January 2017.
• Mentoring and peer-led learning at DMU: developing sustainable and resilient practices (paper). Staff Learning and Teaching Conference, De Montfort University, September 2017
• Learning from the inside out (paper) UCL Institute of Education/ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Philosophy of Education Doctoral Colloquium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2017
• Immanence in learning (paper). Institute for Educational Futures Seminar, De Montfort University, January 2017
• Newtonian Physics: Interior and Exterior in Nicholas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (Lecture and discussion) International Frontiers in Education and Research, "The anxieties of inclusion." Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, December 2016
• Why peer-led learning works (paper). Association of Learning Developers in Higher Education (ALDinHE) conference Heriot-Watt University, March 2016
• Conceptualising Learning and Educational Development in UK Higher Education: From Taxonomy to Assemblage (paper). UCL Institute of Education/ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Philosophy of Education Doctoral Colloquium, UCL Institute of Education, November 2015

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