About

I began my career in education as a primary school teacher in London and the South East. Moving into the School Improvement Service in Buckinghamshire, I worked as the Consultant for Social Inclusion which I built my MA research interest around.

Living and working in the Gulf for 8 years, I worked as part of a public private partnership in the UAE training school leaders and teachers in the new national curriculum. I went on to work in a federal Higher Education Institution where I focused my doctoral research around identifying the model of teacher professionalism and its impact on teacher agency.

I work in a consultancy capacity around Education and International Development in a number of research and advisory roles.

My interest is around understanding learning as a social process, the role of community in learning and how cognitive skills, behaviours and values manifest in learning environments for students and teachers under differing models of leadership and management.

Teaching responsibilities

• Assistant Programme Lead on the School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) non QTS
• Assessor for the Assessment Only route to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Professional interests

• Teacher Professionalism
• Teachers as Researchers
• Leadership and Management in Education
• Comparative and International Education

Research interests

In my research I have identified and considered models of professionalism within  Higher Education institutions to examine how leadership and management impacts creativity and innovation in education and  how knowledge is generated within learning communities through patterns of participation. Of interest is embedding communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991) and Communities of Provision (Rix 2015) into institutional processes to transform participation in shared socio- cultural endeavours leading to creative, innovative and indigenous educational practice.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Education (Ed D) from The Institute of Education, University College London (UCL). Thesis title: Teacher Professionalism, Educational Reform and 21^st Century Skills
• MA in Education, Gender and International Development, The Institute of Education, University College London (UCL). Dissertation title: Inclusion and closing the attainment gap
• Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE) Primary focus. University of Brighton 
• BA (Hons) Communications with Sociology, London Guildhall University

Additional interests and activities

I am involved with the work of Derby Multi faith Centre.

Recent publications

• Kinuthia, H. (2023)The recontextualisation and cultural compatibility of student-centred education: the case of the United Arab Emirates. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01049-1
• Kinuthia, H. J. (2021) Teacher Professionalism, Education Reform and 21st Century Skills in the United Arab Emirates. UCL (University College London). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121811/