Stephen Gorard
Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education and Public Policy, and Director of the Evidence Centre for Education, at Durham University (https://www.dur.ac.uk/). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, external assessor for the Universities of Hong Kong and Barcelona, a member of the Cabinet Office Trials Advice Panel as part of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit, and Lead Editor for BERA’s Review of Education. His work concerns the robust evaluation of education as a lifelong process, focused on issues of equity and improvement, especially. He is author of around 30 books and over 1,000 other publications – making him the most published/cited UK education author in the Web of Science over the past 50 years.
He is currently funded by the British Academy to look at the impact of schooling in India and Pakistan, by EEF to evaluate the impact of self-affirmation, by ESRC to compare teacher supply across the world, and to investigate the impact of the ethnic diversity of the teaching workforce, and by the DfE to evaluate the impact of Glasses in Classes in Opportunity Areas.