Meet our academics

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.

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
• Laura Outhwaite, Research Fellow
• 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

• Jake Anders, Associate Professor in Educational and Social Statistics
• Sinéad Harmey, Lecturer in Literacy Education
• Amanda Ince, Principle Teaching Fellow
• Kathryn Riley, Professor of Urban Education
• Sam Sims, Research Fellow
• 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
• Laura Outhwaite, Research Associate
• Rob Savage, Professor of Psychology and Human Development
• Andy Tolmie, Chair of Psychology and Human Development

Social Science

• Ozan Aksoy, Lecturer in Social Science
• Asma Benhenda, Research Fellow in Education
• Lorraine Dearden, Professor of Economics and Social Statistics
• Lindsey Macmillan, Professor of Economics
• 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
• Hans Svennevig, Senior Teaching Fellow in Citizenship 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  

Meet our senior team

Find a researcher