Publications

2009, with Anne West - 'Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity' Oxford Review of Education. Forthcoming Vol. 35(4)

2007, with Anna Vignoles - 'What should an index of school segregation measure?' Oxford Review of Education. Vol. 33(5) pp. 643-668

2007 - 'Allocating pupils to their nearest school: the consequences for ability and social stratification'. Urban Studies. Vol. 44(4) pp. 751-770

2007, with Anna Vignoles - 'Market incentives in schools' in Frank Coffield and Richard Steer (eds) Public sector reform: principles for improving the education system. London: Institute of Education

Discussion papers and reports

2007, with Anne West - 'Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity?'. Summer 2007 BERA Conference paper

2007 - 'Does school governance matter for pupil achievement? The long-term impact of the Grant-Maintained schools policy'. Summer 2007 BERA Conference Paper

2006 - 'Allocating pupils to their nearest secondary school: the consequences for social and ability stratification'. BG Occasional Paper no. 3, London: Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies, Institute of Education

2006, with Anna Vignoles - 'What should an index of school segregation measure?' CEE Discussion Paper no. 60, London: Centre for Economics of Education, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

2005, with Levacic, Jenkins, Vignoles and Steele - 'Estimating the Relationship between School Resources and Pupil Attainment at Key Stage 3'. DfES Research Report No. 679, Department for Education and Skills

Conference presentations

12th Mar 2008: Witness to the House of Commons Select Committee on Schools, Children and Families. Diversity of schools: faith schools (transcript).

30th Jan 2008: Education Policy Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University. Do own-admissions schools raise social segregation?

12th Oct 2007: GLA Conference on Social Selection, Social Sorting and Education, London. Does school governance matter for pupil performance? and Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity?

20th Sept 2007: European Conference on Educational Research, Ghent, Belgium. The long-term impact of the grant-maintained schools policy on the distribution of pupil outcomes in England.

7th Sept 2007: British Educational Research Association conference, London. Does school governance matter for pupil performance? and Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity?

22nd June 2007: IOE Doctoral School Conference. Former grant-maintained schools and their impact on the distribution of educational outcomes.

17th Jan 2007: PLASC/NPD User Group Workshop, University of Bristol. Measuring school segregation in administrative data: a review.

Sept 2006: British Educational Research Association conference , Warwick University. How much school segregation is due to post-1988 school choice policies? and What should an index of school segregation measure?

17th May 2006: Bedford Group seminar series at Institute of Education, London. Allocating pupils to their nearest school.

3rd May 2006: Royal Statistical Society, Errol Street, London EC1. What should an index of school segregation measure?

30th September 2005: SACMEQ Conference, IIEP (UNESCO), Paris. Which teachers make a difference? Implications for SACMEQ policy makers