deputy head welfare, St Edwards School, Oxford; associate lecturer in philosophy, The Open University
Dr Jim Panton is deputy head welfare at St Edward’s School, Oxford, and an associate lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. He was previously the founding head of senior school at Wellington College International Bangkok; head of upper sixth and head of Politics at Magdalen College School, Oxford; and lecturer in Politics at St John’s College, Hertford College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was also responsible for setting up the tutorial teaching training programme for the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.
He has campaigned around politics and civil liberties. He was a founding member of the pressure group The Manifesto Club, and he was instrumental in establishing the PROTest movement in defence of animal research at Oxford. Jim has a BA, MSc, and DPhil from the University of Oxford, and an MPhil from University College London. He is the author of a number of works on politics and education, most recently as contributing co-editor of From Self to Selfie: A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation (Palgrave, 2019). He has lived and worked in the UK, Cuba, Guatemala, and Thailand.