Staff
Learn about the people in the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research.
Our team
CTTR team
- Dr Kusha Anand – Research Fellow
- Professor Caroline Daly – Centre Director
- Dr Mark Hardman – Associate Professor
- Dr Francesca McCarthy – Research Fellow
- Dr Claire Pillinger – Research Fellow
- Professor Becky Taylor – Professorial Research Fellow
Honorary CTTR staff members
- Honorary Professor Mary Bousted
- Honorary Professor Tony Breslin
- Honorary Professor Viv Ellis
- Honorary Professor Sabine Severiens
- Honorary Associate Professor Katie Strom
Associate Fellows
Members who share an interest in our research programme and events and support our mission:
- Ola Arelepo – Place2Be
- Dr Anna Cook – Anna Cook, Surry Future Fellow, University of Surrey
- Dr Polly Glegg – UCL Institute of Education
- Dr Lauren Hammond – University of Oxford
- Dr Georgina Merchant – UCL Institute of Education
- Dr Sal Riordan – Northeastern University London
- Hans Svennevig – UCL Institute of Education
- Dr Keri Wong – UCL Institute of Education
Advisory group
- Professor Clare Brooks – Professor of Education, University of Cambridge
- Dr Grace Healey - Education Director, David Ross Education Trust
- Professor Andy Hobson – Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange, University of Brighton
- Professor David James – Professor of Sociology of Education, Cardiff University
- Balbir Kaur - University of Nottingham
- Professor Aileen Kennedy – Joint Director, CenTCS, University of Glasgow
- Professor Ian Menter – Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford
- Margaret Mulholland – SEND & Inclusion Policy Specialist, Association of School and College Leaders
- Professor Mark Priestley – Professor of Education, Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling
- Dr Cat Scutt MBE – Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chartered College of Teaching
- Ruth Smith – Director, East London Teaching School Hub
- Jack Worth – Lead Economist, National Foundation for Educational Research.
Meet our academics
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Q&A with Professor Caroline Daly
Caroline Daly is a Professor of Teacher Education. In April 2021, she took up the post as the Director of Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research.
CTTR team of current doctoral students
Doctoral student | Programme | CTTR supervisor |
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Eshan Dauhoo | PhD | Becky Taylor (subsidiary) |
Hermione Paddle | PhD | Becky Taylor (subsidiary) |
Jemi Ngu | DEdPsy | Becky Taylor (principal) |
Laura Male | EdD | Becky Taylor (principal) |
Rebecca Brewer | EdD | Becky Taylor (principal) |
William Bruce | PhD | Becky Taylor (subsidiary) |
Sapna Sandhu | DEdPsy | Becky Taylor (principal) |
Laura Stapleton | PhD | Becky Taylor (principal) |
Leyla Gambell | PhD | Becky Taylor (principal) |
Jasmine Cockcroft | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Gonzalo Guerrero | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Emily MacLeod | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Cat Scutt | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
John Connolly | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Katy Wallace | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Hao Li | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Tim Clark | PhD | Mark Hardman (subsidiary) |
Joanne Taylor | PhD | Mark Hardman (principal) |
Gill Anderson | PhD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Ola Arelepo | EdD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Jaya Carrier | EdD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Su Hippersley | PhD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Liu Jingyuan | PhD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Arnab Podder | PhD | Caroline Daly (subsidiary) |
Mark Quinn | EdD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Mehru Shah | PhD | Caroline Daly (subsidiary) |
Jane Tillin | EdD | Caroline Daly (principal) |
Qingli Xu | PhD | Caroline Daly (principal) |