Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had his book, Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research, published by Routledge. He edited the book with Grace Healy (University College London and University of Oxford, UK) and Di Swift, OBE (The Open University, UK). He contributed to the book's introductory and concluding chapters (with Healy and Swift) and to a chapter titled "Against the closing of educational thought: Open concepts and educational research," (with Jim Hordern, University of Bath, UK).