Jonathan Doney is a senior lecturer in Education policy and History of Education at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the development of Statement Archaeology, his operationalisation of Foucault’s historical methodology, which he applies in the areas of the history of educational policy processes in England and Scandinavia. He also works on close-to-practice research in the field of Religious Education, and was recently awarded the Kevin Brehony prize for his monograph Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology (Routledge 2019). 

Jane Martin is a prize-winning author and Professor of Social History of Education at the University of Birmingham. She co-edited History of Education with Joyce Goodman between 2004 and 2007 and succeeded her as President of the UK History of Education Society in 2010. Executive editor of Educational Review, she is a patron of Comprehensive Future and a member of the editorial board of Forum for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education. Her most recent publication is ‘Elites and Education: Caroline Benn and the Policy Intellectuals of the British Labour Party, circa 1950-1990,’ British Journal of Educational Studies, 73: 3, 283-304.