David Menendez Alvarez-Hevia. Ph.D. Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the Department of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies of the Manchester Metropolitan University. He has been involved in teaching, leading, and developing different Undergraduate and Master programmes in the area of education. David is Executive member of the British Education Studies Association (BESA). He is interested in research that focuses on understanding educational issues from a theoretical and socio-political perspective, combining critical and philosophical lenses to approach education in its wider sense.