Higher Education Researcher at UCL Institute of Education

Andrew Pollard was brought up in Devon and has a family background in printing and in farming.  He received his BA in Sociology and Economics from the University of Leeds, PGCE in Education from the University of Lancaster, MEd and PhD, in the...

Retired at University of Cambridge

Mary James was born in Surrey on 21st March 1946. He father was a skilled joiner and her mother was a factory worker. She failed the 11+ exam so was ‘educated’ at secondary modern and bi-lateral schools before qualifying as a teacher at...

Honorary Professor at University of Stirling

Walter Humes has been a Professor of Education at the Universities of Aberdeen, Strathclyde and West of Scotland.  He is now an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling. His publications range over a...

Professor of Qualitative Inquiry at University of Sheffield

Pat Sikes is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Pat began her research career in 1978 at the University of East Anglia as a research assistant on Lawrence Stenhouse’s Nuffield/Gulbenkian...

Professor of Learning Theory at University of Brighton

Ivor Goodson is professor of Learning Theory at the University of Brighton. He has worked in universities in England, Canada and the USA, and held visiting positions in many countries. Early in his career his PhD explored the construction of...

Director of the Institute of Education

Geoff Whitty was Director of the Institute of Education from 2000 to 2010, and is widely credited with leading the Institute to new heights in terms of its local, national and international standing. Previously, he taught in primary and secondary...

Kellner Family Distinguished Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and is Faculty Affiliate in the Departments of Educational Policy Studies, Educational Leadership & Policy...

Professor Emeritus of Language Education at King’s College London

Brian was a professor emeritus of language education at King’s College London and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education in University of Pennsylvania. He mainly worked on literacy in both theoretical and applied perspectives,...

Sara Delamont was born near Southampton in 1947.  She read Social Anthropology at Girton Colleges Cambridge, and did a PhD in Education at Edinburgh.  The thesis was an ethnography of ‘St Luke’s’, an elite girls’ school.  She lectured...

After undergraduate studies in Sociology and a PGCE, Patricia’s first job was as a teacher in a Jamaican High School. This experience led to an abiding interest in the Sociology of Education and the beginnings of a research career that linked...

For the first 20 years of his career Paul worked in research and undergraduate teaching in physics. During this time he also became involved in assessment work, both as a member of the JMB schools examination board and in a study of assessment of...

After earning a PhD at Harvard University Kathy moved to Oxford where she taught Psychology while serving on the Oxford Pre-school Research Group which was led by Jerome Bruner. Her book Childwatching at Playgroup and Nursery School broke new...