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Sugata Mitra

Professor Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. He is the instigator of the Hole in the...

Siân Bayne

Sian is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Moray House School of Education. She directs the Centre for Research in Digital Education and teaches on the MSc...

Sam Freedman

Sam is Director of Research, Evaluation and Impact at Teach First. From 2009 to February 2013 he was an adviser to Michael Gove. After the 2010 election he worked as a senior policy adviser in...

Lesley Emerson

Lesley Emerson is a Lecturer in Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research is focused currently on two themes: the role of...

Warwick Mansell

Journalist

Warwick Mansell is a freelance education journalist. Having begun his career in local journalism at the Cambridge Evening News in 1995, he then spent nine years at the Times Educational...

Poonam Batra

Poonam Batra is Professor of Education at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, India. Recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship for research in teacher education...

Peter Mortimore

Education researcher and writer. Author ‘Education under siege’. London teacher in 1960s/70s; ILEA Director of Research and Statistics; professor at universities of Lancaster, London and...

Pamela Munn

Emeritus Professor of Education

After teaching history in comprehensive schools in London, Pamela joined the University of Stirling as a research fellow in 1979. She was appointed as lecturer in Applied Research at the...

What can experiment tell us in educational research?

In education, we’ve put a straitjacket around our notion of experiment. We adhere steadfastly to what Parlett and Hamilton (1972) famously called the ‘agricultural-botany paradigm’. But the...

Dame Alison Peacock

Dame Alison Peacock is Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, a charitable Professional Body that seeks to empower a knowledgeable and respected teaching profession through...

Maths at the kitchen table: Capturing teacher and family voices on online teaching and learning in Covid-19 times

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on everyday life across the world. In January 2020, we could not have imagined that in just a few months as many as 138 countries would...

Gary Thomas

Being of a nervous disposition as a child, Gary Thomas failed to write anything on his 11-plus examination paper, which inaction took him to secondary modern school. His subsequent zigzag through...