Sociology of education; critical theories of race and class; education policy and educational inequalities; post-compulsory education and training; work-based learning.
Paul Warmington joined the Centre for Education Studies in 2017. He has worked in higher education since 2000, teaching, researching and writing extensively on sociological and cultural aspects of education. Prior to this, Paul taught for eleven years in further education, specialising in English and in Black Studies. Paul's key current interests are in education and social justice, drawing on critical theories of race and class. He teaches at BA, Masters and doctoral levels. His recent writing focuses race equality and education policy, and vocational education. Paul's research has been funded by the ESRC, British Academy, HEFCE and the Society for Educational Studies. He has given many keynote lectures and symposia, including presentations at the American Educational Research Association and the British Educational Research Association's Annual Meetings. His most recent book is Black British Intellectuals and Education: multiculturalism's hidden history, published by Routledge.
- Warmington, Paul, 2019. Critical race theory in England : impact and opposition. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
- Warmington, Paul, Gillborn, David, Rollock, Nicola, Demack, Sean, 2018. "They can't handle the race agenda" : stakeholders? reflections on race and education policy, 1993-2013. Educational Review, 70 (4), pp. 409-426
- Gillborn, David, Warmington, Paul, Demack, Sean, 2018. QuantCrit : education, policy, ?Big Data' and principles for a critical race theory of statistics. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21 (2), pp. 158-179
- Avis, J., Orr, K., Warmington, Paul, 2017. Race and vocational education and training in England. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 69 (3), pp. 292-310
- Gillborn, David, Demack, Sean, Rollock, Nicola, Warmington, Paul, 2017. Moving the goalposts : education policy and 25 years of the Black/White achievement gap. British Educational Research Journal, 43 (5), pp. 848-874
- Warmington, Paul, 2015. Dystopian social theory and education. Educational Theory, 65 (3), pp. 265-281
- Warmington, Paul, 2015. The emergence of black British social conservatism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (7), pp. 1152-1168
- Warmington, Paul, 2012. ?A tradition in ceaseless motion' : critical race theory and black British intellectual spaces. Race Ethnicity and Education, 15 (1), pp. 5-21
- Warmington, Paul, Grosvenor, Ian, 2011. A very historical mode of understanding : examining editorial and ethnographic relations in The Primary (2008). Paedagogica Historica, 47 (4), pp. 543-558
- Warmington, Paul, 2011. Divisions of labour: activity theory, multi-professional working and intervention research. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 63 (2), pp. 143-157
- Warmington, Paul, Van Gorp, Angelo, Grosvenor, Ian, 2011. Education in motion : uses of documentary film in educational research. Paedagogica Historica, 47 (4), pp. 457-472
- Warmington, Paul, 2009. Taking race out of scare quotes : race-conscious social analysis in an ostensibly post-racial world. Race Ethnicity and Education, 12 (3), pp. 281-296
- Daniels, Harry, Warmington, Paul, 2007. Analysing third generation activity systems : labour-power, subject position and personal transformation. Journal of Workplace Learning, 19 (6), pp. 377-391
- Daniels, Harry, Leadbetter, Jane, Warmington, Paul, Edwards, Anne, Martin, Deirdre, Popova, Anna, Apostolov, Apostol, Middleton, David, Brown, Steve, 2007. Learning in and for multi-agency working. Oxford Review of Education, 33 (4), pp. 521-538
- Warmington, Paul, Murphy, Roger, 2007. ?Read All about it!' UK news media coverage of A-Level results. Policy Futures in Education, 5 (1), pp. 70-83
- Sandford, Rachel A., Armour, Kathleen M., Warmington, Paul, 2006. Re-engaging disaffected youth through physical activity programmes. British Educational Research Journal, 32 (2), pp. 251-271
- Warmington, Paul, Murphy, Roger, 2004. Could do better? Media depictions of UK educational assessment results. Journal of Education Policy, 19 (3), pp. 285-299
- Warmington, Paul, Wilmut, John, 2004. Re-inventing the wheel? Divergent conceptions of the role of internal verifiers within organisations. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 56 (2), pp. 307-328
- Warmington, Paul, 2003. 'You need a qualification for everything these days.' The impact of work, welfare and disaffection upon the aspirations of access to Higher Education students. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24 (1), pp. 95-108
- Warmington, Paul, 2002. Studenthood as surrogate occupation : access to higher education students' discursive production of commitment, discursive production of commitment, maturity and peer support. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 54 (4), pp. 583-600
- Crawford, Claire, Demack, Sean, Gillborn, David, Warmington, Paul, 2018. Quants and crits : using numbers for social justice (or, how not to be lied to with statistics). DeCuir-Gunby, J.; Chapman, T.; Schutz, P. (eds.), Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies: Lessons from the field, New York, Routledge
- Warmington, Paul, 2016. Critical outlooks. Osborne, Deirdre (ed.), The Cambridge companion to British Black and Asian literature (1945-2010), Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press
- Warmington, Paul, 2014. Agents of critical hope : black British narratives. Bozalek, Vivienne; Leibowitz, Brenda; Carolissen, Ronelle; Boler, Megan (eds.), Discerning critical hope in educational practices, London; New York, Routledge
- Warmington, Paul, 2014. Black British intellectuals and education : multiculturalism's hidden history. London; New York, Routledge
- Warmington, Paul, 2011. Some of my best friends are Marxists : critical race theory, sociocultural theory and the ?figured worlds' of race. In Hylton, Kevin; Pilkington, Andrew; Warmington, Paul; Housee, Shirin (eds.), Atlantic Crossings : international dialogues on critical race theory, Birmingham, CSAP/Higher Education Academy, pp. 262-283
- Warmington, Paul, 2010. Expansive learning, expansive labour : conceptualizing the social production of labour-power within multi-agency working. In Daniels, Harry; Edwards, Anne; Engestrom, Yrjo; Gallagher, Tony; Ludvigsen, Sten (eds.), Activity Theory in Practice: promoting learning across boundaries and agencies, London, Routledge, pp. 72-89
- Edwards, Anne, Daniels, Harry, Gallagher, Tony, Leadbetter, Jane, Warmington, Paul, 2009. Improving inter-professional collaborations : multi-agency working for children's wellbeing. London, Routledge
- Warmington, Paul, 2009. Learning in and for multiagency working. In Daniels, Harry; Lauder, Hugh; Porter, Jill (eds.), Knowledge, Values and Education Policy: A critical perspective, London, Routledge, pp. 87-94
- Warmington, Paul, Daniels, Harry, Edwards, Anne, Leadbetter, Jane, Martin, Deirdre, Middleton, David, Brown, Steve, Popova, Anna, Apostolov, Apostol, 2009. Learning leadership in multiagency work for integrating services into schools. In Forbes, Joan; Watson, Cate (eds.), Service Integration in Schools: research and policy discources, practices and future prospects, Rotterdam, Sense, pp. 97-107
- Warmington, Paul, 2008. The "R" word : voicing race as a critical problem and not just a problem of practice. In Satterthwaite, Jerome; Watts, Michael; Piper, Heather (eds.), Talking Truth, Confronting Power, Stoke on Trent, Trentham, pp. 143-157
- Warmington, Paul, 2007. Popular press, visible value : how debates on exams and student debt have unmasked the commodity relations of the ?learning age'. In Green, Anthony; Rikowski, Glenn; Raduntz, Helen (eds.), Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education: Openings, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 215-228
- Warmington, Paul, Daniels, Harry, Edwards, Anne, Brown, Steve, Leadbetter, Jane, Martin, Deirdre, Middleton, Dave, 2004. Interagency collaboration : a review of the literature : TLRPIII : learning in and for interagency working. Bath, Learning in and for Interagency Working Project
- Warmington, Paul, 2015. The status of race and racism in policy : an analysis of project interviews.
- Smith, P., Daniels, H., Edwards, A., Apostolov, A., Brown, S., Kinti, I., Leadbetter, J., Martin, D., Martsin, M., Middleton, D., Parsons, S. G., Popava, A., Warmington, Paul, Youngs, S., 2008. Learning in and for multi-agency working in preventing social exclusion. Institute of Education