Andrew Wilkins is Reader in Education and REF Impact Coordinator for UoA 23 Education in the Cass School of Education and Communities at the University of East London where he teaches research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Andrew joined the University of East London in 2015. Prior to this he was Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton. Andrew completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds in 2003 and postgraduate degree at Goldsmiths in 2005 before obtaining his PhD in Social Policy at the Open University in 2009.