PhD (Queensland University of Technology), GDipEd (Darwin Institute of Technology), Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics (ESL Strand) (Northern Territory University)
Professor Doherty is a co-investigator, previously with us at QUT, now working at the University of Glasgow.
I am a sociologist of education and applied linguist. I am interested in how education practices and policies can both contribute to social change, and mitigate its effects.
Before becoming an academic, I worked in community education, adult literacy, migrant English programs, and higher education bridging programs in two states in Australia. I also worked in curriculum and policy for language/literacy provision. My doctoral project explored cultural difference in online internationalised higher education, to show how it is invoked as both a curricular asset and a pedagogical problem. I then worked in the Faculty of Education at the Queensland University of Technology before coming to the University of Glasgow in 2017.
In my work, I seek to conduct empirically rigorous studies that are informed by sociological and educational theory to investigate social and professional problems that matter. I have worked with classroom ethnography, document analysis, survey designs, interview methods, narrative analysis and critical discourse analysis. My research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Linguistics and Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and International Studies in Sociology of Education.
I am an associate editor for Critical Studies in Education, and regularly do reviews for many other education and sociology journals, and grant schemes.