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Find out about our academics' work, their professional interests and what working at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) means to them.
More world-leading scholars in the field of education, work at the IOE than any other UK university (Source: Research Excellence Framework 2014). At the forefront of research, most of our 400 academics have also been practitioners and draw on direct experience of the workplace.
For a full list of our academics and their research interests, visit Find a researcher.
Q&A with Gideon Sappor
Senior Teaching Fellow in Early Years and Primary Education.
Q&A with Rachel Rosen
Associate Professor in Sociology of Childhood.
Q&A with John Connolly
Lecturer In Secondary Initial Teacher Education (Science).
Q&A with Georgina Merchant
Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (ITE).
Q&A with Professor Li Wei
Chair of Applied Linguistics.
More staff Q&As, by department:
- Culture, Communication and Media
- Andrew Burn, Professor of Media Education
- Zsófia Demjén, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
- Lucy Green, Emerita Professor of Music Education
- Celia Hoyles, Professor of Mathematical Education
- Carey Jewitt, Professor of Learning and Technology
- Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design
- Manolis Mavrikis, Reader in Learning Technologies
- Richard Noss, Professor of Mathematical Education
- Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Li Wei, Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
- Clare Bentall, Lecturer in Education
- Ruth Dann, Associate Professor in Education
- Martin Mills, Professor and Director of Centre for Research on Teachers and Teaching
- Michael Reiss, Professor of Science Education
- Mary Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Education
- Hugh Starkey, Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education
- Education, Practice and Society
- Louise Archer, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education
- Stephen Ball, Professor of Sociology of Education
- Alice Bradbury, Senior Lecturer in Education
- Georgina Brewis, Associate Professor in the History of Education
- Bryan Cunningham, Senior Lecturer in Education
- Jay Derrick, Senior Lecturer in Adult and Further Education
- Alison Fuller, Pro-Director for Research and Development
- Paul Grainger, Co-Director of the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work
- David Guile, Professor of Education and Work
- Rachel Wilde, Lecturer in Education
- Learning and Leadership
- Sinéad Harmey, Lecturer in Literacy Education
- Amanda Ince, Principle Teaching Fellow
- Kathryn Riley, Professor of Urban Education
- Dominic Wyse, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education
- Psychology and Human Development
- Peter Blatchford, Professor in Psychology and Education
- Laura Crane, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education
- Anna Remington, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science
- Rob Savage, Professor of Psychology and Human Development
- Andy Tolmie, Chair of Psychology and Human Development
- Social Science
- Lorraine Dearden, Professor of Economics and Social Statistics
- Rachel Rosen, Associate Professor in Sociology of Childhood
- Teacher Training
- Ruth Amos, Lecturer in Science Education
- Verna Brandford, Secondary PGCE Lecturer in Languages
- John Connolly, Lecturer In Secondary Initial Teacher Education (Science)
- Cosette Crisan, Principle Teaching Fellow in Mathematics Education
- Georgina Merchant, Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education
- Gideon Sappor, Senior Teaching Fellow in Early Years and Primary Education
- Robin Whitburn, Lecturer in History Education
- IOE Directorate
- Becky Francis, Director, UCL Institute of Education
- Alison Fuller, Pro-Director for Research and Development
- Norbert Pachler, Pro-Director for Teaching Quality and Learning Innovation