I am a lecturer in Economics of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.  These pages are intended to supplement my IOE web page, where you can also find up-to-date contact details.

I am based in the Department of Quantitative Social Science.  We are a multi-disciplinary department of economists, psychologists, sociologists, statisticians and demographers who all practice applied quantitative research.  Not all of us exclusively write about education policy (but I do).

I am course leader for the MA/MSc in Economics of Education and supervise dissertations for various masters and PhD students.  The students I teach come from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds from all over the world.  It isn’t essential to have worked in education to take our courses, but most have some experience as a policy-maker or a teacher.

My research mostly uses large scale datasets, such as the National Pupil Database and the Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England.  Current research interests include:

1. •Choice-based secondary school admissions
   

2. •Competition and secondary school performance
   

3. •Measuring social and ability stratification
   

4. •Estimating school, department and teacher effectiveness
   

5. •Understanding changes in school and departmental effectiveness