MA Hons. (University of Edinburgh) Economic and Social History; PGCE. (Sussex) Primary Education; MA (University of Wales) Education; PhD (Sussex) Education; PgCertHE. (Sussex).

Senior Education Lecturer, Dept. of Education, School of Education & Social Work, University of Sussex

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP);
Steering board member Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth

I work part-time on a Tuesday and a Thursday 2024-25. Please email me for an appointment: rcw28@sussex.ac.uk OR please come to my office hour 1200-1300 on Tuesdays during term time in the autumn semester of 2024. 

I lead the MA Education 'Provocative Pedagogies' on a Tuesday between 0900-11200 from Sept. 24, 2024 - Dec. 3rd. 2024. This module links explicitly to my research knowledge and interests. These focus on the theory/practice intersections of the purposes of education especially in relation to the democratic, transformative planetary sustainability possibilities of education for the uncertain times within which we seek to thrive and strive for social justice for human and more-than-human species alike. 

Prior to completing a PhD (supervised by Emeritus Professor Valerie Hey and Professor Linda Morrice) in 2014, and taking up an academic position in the same year, I had had a career as a teacher, lecturer, teacher trainer and education adviser in England and Wales. My work had been in an advisory capacity within schools in South Wales, promoting issues of equity, inclusion and achievement. Much of my own expertise drew on my English As An Additional Language (EAL) knowledge acquired through working for Cardiff Local Education Authority as an EAL/EDI advisor, and my MA in Education, in bilingualism and race equality.

I have been nominated for the following Teaching Excellence awards from the University of Sussex:
2023, Short-listed finalist
2022, Short-listed finalist
2021, Winner of Spirit of Sussex award with MA in Early Years Education Team
2019, Short-listed finalist
2018, Winner of Teaching Excellence Award with MA Early Years Education Team
2017, Winner Student-Led Teaching Award, 'Outstanding Support for the Learning Experience of Students'
2015, Winner Student-Led Teaching Award: 'Outstanding Support for the Learning Experience of Students'


Recent publications include:
Kirby, P. & Webb, R. (Eds), Creating with Uncertainty: sustainability education resources for a changing world, PressBooks, open access - https://openpress.sussex.ac.uk/creatingwithuncertainty/

C. Solvason and R. Webb (Eds), Exploring and Celebrating the Early Childhood Practitioner: An Interrogation of Pedagogy, Professionalism and Practice, TACTYC Association for professional Development in the Early Years London and New York, Routledge Early Education, Taylor & Francis.

Webb, R and Foster, K. (2023) Championing a not knowing Transformative Pedagogy and Practice: re-envisioning the role of the ECEC Practitioner, in C. Solvason and R. Webb (Eds), Exploring and Celebrating the Early Childhood Practitioner: An Interrogation of Pedagogy, Professionalism and Practice, TACTYC Association for professional Development in the Early Years London and New York, Routledge Early Education, Taylor & Francis.

Webb, R., Morelos-Juarez, C, Saha, A., Kirby, P., Ponciano, P., Karath, K., Palomeque, E., Macias, M., Meza, P. (2023 publication) ‘Hope in the present’: education for sustainability in the Global South, in: B. Percy-Smith, N. Patrick Thomas, C. O’Kane and A. Twum-Danso Imoh (Eds). A New Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Conversations for Transformational Change. Oxford, Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Kirby, P. and Webb, R. (eds), together with Parry, J., Jonik, M. and Thomson, S. and many other colleagues (2023) Creating with uncertainty: sustainability education resources for a changing world, Press Book – https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-sustainability-research-programme/resources/sustainability-toolkits (to be launched 12 July 2023).