Jane is a Professor of Sociology of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. She was a social science teacher and head of department in secondary schools for 10 years before moving into Higher Education to become a course leader for the PGCE in Social Science, first at Goldsmiths College and then at UCL Institute of Education. She is currently the IOE Faculty Graduate Tutor, responsible for doctoral supervision across the IOE. She is primarily interested in how policy affects the professional lives of teachers. She researches issues around accountability, performativity and inspection, policy enactment more generally, and is particularly interested in teacher retention. She uses Foucault to help make sense of neo-liberal education systems. She works with qualitative methodologies, particularly interviewing and using case-studies. Her most recent project was the ‘Beyond Ofsted’ Inquiry on which she was Principal Investigator. Jane hopes that the Inquiry’s recommendations will lead to a better and more supportive system that takes into account the needs of teachers and students alike. She believes that by working together, policymakers, educators, and researchers can develop a system that is fair, effective, and supportive of everyone involved in education.