About Hugh
Hugh Rayment-Pickard is Co-Director of the Professional Teaching Institute (www.ptieducation.org) which support teachers at all stages of their career by delivering a range of professional development courses. Previously he was the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for the education charity IntoUniversity, which runs education centres that support young people facing disadvantage to achieve a university place or another chosen aspiration. Before that, he worked for over 20 years as a Church of England minister in parishes in London’s East End and in Notting Hill.
He is the author of several publications including Philosophies of History: from Enlightenment to Postmodernity (Blackwell, 2000) [with Robert Burns] and The Myths of Time: from St Augustine to American Beauty (DLT, 2004). He has undergraduate degrees in English Literature (The University of Kent) and Theology (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) and completed his PhD thesis (Goldsmith’s University of London) on the philosopher Jacques Derrida (published as Impossible God, Ashgate, 2003). He has edited (with Carolyn Roberts) a collection of essays on school leadership entitled Well Educated which will be published by Taylor and Francis in 2026.
Hugh was made an MBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours, was given the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lanfranc Award for Education in 2019 and honorary doctorates by The University of York, in 2023 and The Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2024. In his spare time, he studies the classical accordion.