Author of over 100 papers in journals or as book chapters. Journals include Critical Sociology, Capital & Class, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Humanity & Society, Sociologisk Arbok,Comparative Education, Das Argument, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies,Studies in the Education of Adults, International Journal of Lifelong Education, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Comparative Education Review (essay review), Critica Marxista, Socialism & Democracy, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies.
20 Books(authored/co-authored, edited/co-edited) that include: Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education (1999, Zed Books) subsequently published in translation in seven other languages, Liberating Praxis (Praeger, 2004 - AESA Critics Choice Award,2005), Learning and Social Difference (Routledge, 2007), Adult Education in Malta (DVV International, 2007), Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements. A book of Interviews (Peter Lang, 2007), Education in Small States(ed, Routledge 2009),Gramsci and Educational Thought(edited, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction ( Sense 2012 - 2013 C. Houle award; subsequently republished in Spanish translation), Politics of Indignation (Zero Books, 2012), Echoes form Freire for a Critically Engaged Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2013), Lorenzo Milani, the School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice (Peter Lang, 2013); Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci (Routledge, 2015); International Critical Pedagogy Reader (co-edited, Routledge, 2015).
Keynotes: Save the Children-Italia conference Milan (2007), ERNAPE, Nicosia(2007), Ibero-African Adult Education conference, Villareal-de-San-Antonio (2007),COFIR conference, Arezzo (2008), Lifelong Learning in Europe Conference, Helsinki (2009), Nordic Adult Education Conference, Middlefart (2009), ESREA Network Conference, Seville(2010), International Sociology of Education Symposium, Ankara (2012), Lifelong Learning and Citizenship conference, Castellon de la Plana (2012), Sociology of Education-CIMIE, University of Barcelona (skype-2012), EUCEN Conference, Malta (2012), Critical Education conference, Ankara (2013), ESREA Triennial Conference, Berlin (2013), 8th Polish Education Congress, Gdansk (2013), Annual Sociology conference, Malta (2013), PEN Conference, Malta (2014).
Edits series: Palgrave-Macmillan 'Postcolonial Studies in Education'(co-edited). Sense 'International Issues in Adult Education.' Bloomsbury Academic 'Critical Education.' Journal co-editor: Postcolonial Directions in Education. Contributed to Truthout, Gramsci Oggi, Counterpunch, Latino America.
Educational sociology
Adult education
Comparative education
Social theory
Critical Pedagogy
Cultural Studies
Mayo, P. 2017, "Engagng the glocal: EU Mantras, National Strategy and the Struggle for Adult Education as a Public Good", Studies in the Education of Adults, vol. 49, no. in press.
Mayo, P. 2015, "Antonio Gramsci's Impact on Critical pedagogy", Critical Sociology, vol. 41, no. 7-8, pp. 1007-1026.
Mayo, P. 2015, "Italian Signposts for a sociologically and critically engaged pedagogy.Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967) and the schools of San Donato and Bariana revisted.", British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 853-870.
al-Silwadi, N. & Mayo, P. 2014, "Pedagogy under Siege in Palestine. Insights from Paulo Freire", Holy land Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 71-87.
Grech, M. & Mayo, P. 2014, "What Catholic Educators can learn from the Radical Christianity and Critical Pedagogy of Don Lorenzo Milani", International Studies in Catholic Education, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 33-45.
Mayo, P. 2014, "Gramsci and the politics of education", Capital & Class, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 385-398.
Mayo, P. 2013, "Higher Education, Socialism and Industrial Development. Dom Mintoff and the 'Worker-Student' Scheme", International Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
Mayo, P. 2013, "Museums as Sites of Critical Pedagogical Practice", Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 144-153.
Mayo, P. 2013, "Social Democracy in a Postcolonial Island State. Dom Mintoff's Impact", Socialism and Democracy, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 130-139.
Mayo, P., Pace, P. & Zammit, E. 2008, "Adult Education in Small States: The Case of Malta", Comparative Education, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 229-246.
Mayo, P., Pace, P. & Zammit, E. 2008, "Adult Education in Small States: The Case of Malta", Comparative Education, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 229-246.
ACA5047 - Higher Education, Community and Social Difference
DOC6053 - Getting Published through edited volumes
Associate, University of Glasgow: Erasmus Mundus International MA in Adult Education & Social Change
Appointments
Member, Collegio Docenti, dottorato di ricerca in Educazione, University of Verona.
Previously member, Collegio Docenti for Dottorato di Ricerca,'Pedagogia e Sociologia Interculturale', University of Messina.
Short term Visiting Professor: Universities of Alberta (1996 & 2007), Bogazici-Istanbul(2009), Cyprus(2008), UBC-Vancouver(2010), Gdansk (2014) Two year Visiting Professor (2016-2018) Institute of Education, UCL, London
Evaluator: SSHRC (Canada)and EU sixth framework proposals
Evaluator: tenure, promotion to associate or full professor for Universities of Massachusetts-Boston,UCLA, Arizona State, Auckland, Alberta, Victoria-BC, UBC-Vancouver, Botswana & Open University-Cyprus (Chair,promotion committee).
Examiner foreign theses: Ph.D, Universities of Alberta, Auckland, Trento, Verona & Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianapolis). Ed.D, St Thomas University, Minnesota. MA, StFX University, Antigonish.
Editorial advisory Board member/consulting editor: Convergence, Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, Adult Education Quarterly,Journal of Transformative Education, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Encyclopaidea, Critical Education, Educação, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA), Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, International Journal of Educational Policy, Quaderni d'Intercultura, LLL Focus on Lifelong/Lifewide Learning, Dialogos: Educación y formación de personas adultas, Educazione Democratica, Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, Policy Futures in Education, Rizoma Freireano, International Journal of Sociology of Education, Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, International Gramsci Journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory, International Review of Education, Quaderns d'educació contÃnua, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. Book series: Globalisation of adult education and training (Zed, 1997- 2001);AltrEducazione(Fuori Onda).
Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education President 2008-2010.
George Bereday Award Committee Member, CIES 2004-2006.
