David Hay is an educational researcher and teacher specialising in human learning process and ethnography of learning experiences. He has a worldwide reputation for the analysis of university student learning and the visualisation of educational trajectory using concept mapping. Other work of his includes: using drawing in science; educational technology; and promoting inquiry into higher and professional education; are also published in some of the highest ranking international education journals and reported in The Atlantic.

Since 2017, his teaching work has been for Directing Staff at the Defence Academy UK: helping military officers achieve the highest standards of teaching excellence in their own professional education settings. He also teaches ‘emotional intelligence’ on some courses of the Royal Navy, and ‘reflective practices’ for the Royal Airforce, while my research fieldwork, in partnership with the Land Command and Staff College, includes following officers through various courses and stages of their professional development in the UK and overseas.

Having been taught adult education by Professor Peter Jarvis, His main professional commitment is organised around “the person who learns” while his personal abiding concern is a search for teaching without denying students learning for themselves.

His first degree is from King’s College London and His Doctorate from Oxford University. I am also an Associate of King’s College (AKC) for studies in Theology.