I am a senior 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.  My publication list reveals that most of my research to-date has examined market reforms to schooling, including:

1. •Choice-based secondary school admissions
   

2. •Competition and secondary school performance
   

3. •Measuring social and ability stratification
   

4. •The impact of school autonomy on exam performance
   

I continue to write about school choice, but am also turning my attention to new areas:

1. •Understanding the teacher labour market in the UK and Africa, including estimating teacher effectiveness and understanding the sorting of teachers into schools
   

2. •Examining changes in school effectiveness, in particular government policies for schools that are struggling