James C Conroy is currently Dean for European Strategy and Engagement and Professor of Philosophical and Religious Education at the University of Glasgow.

Previously he has held positions as Dean of the Faculty of Education, Head of Graduate School and Head of Department He is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford and has been EU visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw, visiting Professor at Australian Catholic University, Fordham University and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. After teaching in Schools and Adult Education in
Bristol and London he was appointed Senior Lecturer at St. Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill in 1987. Over the years he has lectured and offered keynotes and workshops to a wide range of professional and academic audiences across the UK and beyond including Australia, United States, South Africa, Lesotho, the Netherlands and Ireland on teacher education, the teaching vocation, religion and schooling, school climate. Conroy has served on a number of governmental, national and international bodies including the Cabinet Secretary’s Work Force Planning Review Group, the General Teaching Council for Scotland, The Universities Council forthe Education of Teachers, the British Educational Research Association, The Association for Moral Education (of which he is immediate past-President) and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (of which he is Chair Elect).

His research interests are broad and cover both theoretical and empirical concerns. His work has been funded by the AHRC/ESRC, the Templeton Foundation, the Scottish Government and includes work on Religious Education, Moral Education, the politics of Education and teacher education. He was responsible for creating a developing an innovative partnership model of clinical practice in Teacher Education in collaboration with Glasgow City Council. In 2012 he was made an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and is currently a member of the Education Sub-Panel for Education in the 2013 Research Excellence Framework. The author of over 70 books and papers, he is committed to teaching as an intellectually grounded profession and to the provision of challenging education.