Education research. Associate Professor @CEPEO_UCL. Research Lead @Ambition_Inst.
Joined April 2009
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28 Nov 2025
New research with Clare Routledge
Funded by @GatsbyEd
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
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28 Nov 2025
So what?
1.Starting salary matters for recruitment. This complements evidence on importance of pay for retention.
2. Recruitment campaigns should emphasise extrinsic rewards, alongside meaningful aspects. Great 2015 example here - watch to the end!
youtube.com/watch?v=vTzzZaaJ…
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28 Nov 2025
Thanks to Gatsby for supporting this and to my brilliant co-author Clare Routledge
Full paper here, including a discussion of the limitations of our approach: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow…
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19 Nov 2025
Thank you, @LairaGreenSch! Please do join us for the webinar “Becoming a Reader” on November 26th. 📚
👀 “An excellent, excellent webinar!
🧡 Hear from Claire Jones, Headteacher at Champion School @LairaGreenSch on why you don’t want to miss Professor @Kathy_Rastle's myth-busting 'Becoming a Reader' webinar on Wednesday 26th November.
🎟️ It's free for members, so book now via Ongoing CPD - perfect to watch on your own or with colleagues in a staff meeting.
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20 Nov 2025
Do you like the kind of research that we do at @CEPEO_UCL? 📈
Want to learn more about education policy and analysis? 🏫
Then why not come and do our new MSc this September? 🧑🎓
Be warned - the module on teachers and teaching will be taught by me!
ucl.ac.uk/prospective-studen…
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25 Jul 2025
Hi X 👋🏻
Is there anyone out there who a) knows how to write basic C scripts and b) interested in joining a research project looking at behaviour/attention in the classroom? ~2 of work in total. You would be a coauthor on paper.
Please do get in touch!
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29 Jul 2025
Thanks very much to everyone who got in touch on this. We have now found somebody.
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6 May 2025
The link is here! nature.com/articles/s41539-0…
9 Apr 2025
I guess nobody really wants to talk about morphology just now, but Maria Korochkina and I just had a really cool paper accepted! Link soon! 📚
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29 Apr 2025
Primary educators 👋🏻
I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy…
Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? Thanks!
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27 Feb 2025
My friend Natasha Raheem @Dixons_OS is writing an important book about schools that support student and teacher belonging. She is looking for case studies of schools doing great work in this area. If you know of good examples, please DM me. Thanks!
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6 Jan 2025
AMAZING EDU RESEARCH JOB ALERT: Help design/implement nationwide RCT of improvements to teacher development. ~£51k London weighting Teacher pension (~25% of gross salary). Work with me, @DrSamSims @profbeckyallen @ProfCoe @JohnPeterJerrim More info: niot.org.uk/careers/senior-r…
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18 Dec 2024
📊 New Research on Teaching for Near Transfer
@JohnPeterJerrim @DrSamSims @odmarcenaro used data on 280,000 students from the 2019 TIMMS study, no link was found between teaching methods aimed at transferring knowledge & students’ ability to solve unfamiliar maths problems.
Key findings:
🔍 Approaches like linking new content to prior knowledge, solving problems independently and applying lessons to real-life didn’t improve performance on unfamiliar problems.
📖 Even “near transfer” (applying knowledge to similar situations) proved difficult for primary students.
📈 The study used data from TIMSS, focusing on non-curriculum questions to test knowledge application.
These findings challenge assumptions about teaching for transfer and highlight the complexity of helping students apply their learning in new contexts. Further research is needed to uncover better strategies.
🔓Full article
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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