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Peter is a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and is a multi-award-winning author for Bloomsbury Education and author and editor for Crown House Publishing on The Philosophy Foundation Series of books. As Co-CEO of The Philosophy Foundation he represents the charity worldwide speaking at international conferences and festivals, works in the classroom with children every week, trains philosophy graduates and classroom teachers, whilst leading TPF in its mission to transform thinking in education. Peter developed the method of Philosophical Enquiry that is at the heart of The Philosophy Foundation's work, as captured in his first book The If Machine: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom, which was adapted into a BBC series and nominated for a BAFTA in 2013. His next books, The If Odyssey and The Philosophy Shop, were both shortlisted for Educational Book of the Year, 2013, with The Philosophy Shop winning this prize, as well as Best Anthology and Best Philosophy Book 2012. His co-authored book Thoughtings was selected as Best Teaching Book 2013. In 2014 his fifth book Once Upon an If: The Storythinking Handbook was shortlisted for the Educational Resources Award as was 40 Lesson to Get Children Thinking. His book 101 Ideas: Questioning was one of the top 40 of the Best Educational Books 2021, and his latest books, Corrupting Youth, Volumes 1 and 2 have been described as ‘masterpiece’ ‘so good I ran out of page markers!’ Dr Aristidis (Harry) Galatis from The University of Melbourne, lecturer in Philosophy of Education wrote in a review: "Worley’s meticulous understanding of question-types and the pedagogical purposes for which they are best employed is perhaps unequaled in the field and elevates the PhiE [The Philosophy Foundation’s approach] method above other community of inquiry approaches.”