Sue Clegg is Professor of Higher Educational Research at Leeds Metropolitan University.

She is an acknowledged researcher in the field and her publications span close-to-practice research, often in collaboration with practitioners, to theoretical interventions for example in her work on the social and pedagogical significance of the gendering of information technology, her analyses of information technologies in learning and teaching, and her critique of the debate about the nature of ‘evidence-based’ practice.

She has written about the importance of critical distance and work which scrutinises higher education as well as serving it. In her recent work she has taken seemingly mundane pedagogical practices, such as those involved in personal development planning, and explored how these are understood by staff and students and the ways in which they are reframed in policy discourse. She has also taken a critical look at institutional practices designed to improve teaching, analysing the rhetorical repertoire of learning and teaching strategies and exploring how these strategies are mediated in practice.

She is Editor of one of the leading international journals in the field Teaching in Higher Education, and is a regular contributor at higher education conferences.