Dennis Hayes

Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby and Director of the influential campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF), which he founded in 2006. He is an education columnist for The Conversation and was previously a columnist for the Times Educational Supplement and has been a member of the editorial board of the Times Higher Education magazine since its foundation. In 2009 he edited and contributed to a special edition of the British Journal of Educational Studies on Academic Freedom. He writes regularly in the national and international press on free speech and academic freedom. His latest book is The ‘Limits’ of Academic Freedom (2014).