Dr Craig Skerritt is Lecturer in Education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, where he is also the departments Impact Director. His book Consulting Students on Classroom Practice, ‘Good’ Teaching and Teacher Performance: A Critical Account of Student Voice in Contemporary Schools was recently published by Bloomsbury, and he is currently editing two collections for Bloomsbury: Advising on and Making Education Policy: New Perspectives on Past and Present Procedures and Opportunities and Challenges for Policy Advice and Policy Making in Education: Future Possibilities.

Dr Skerritt convenes the British Educational Research Association’s Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making special interest group, and he is also the secretary and treasurer of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland’s Critical and Feminist Research Policy Analysis special interest group. Moreover, he serves on the editorial board of British Educational Research Journal, is an external evaluator on the University of Malta’s Research Excellence Fund programme and he has examined doctoral theses in Australia, England, and Ireland.