• Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University

Professor Stephen Gorard is Director of the Evidence Centre for Education, at Durham University, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His work concerns the robust evaluation of education, focused on issues of equity and improvement. 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 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, and to assess the role of household income in school outcomes.

His work concerns the robust evaluation of education as a lifelong process, focused on issues of equity and effectiveness. He is a widely read and cited methodologist, involved in international and regional capacity-building activities, and used regularly as an adviser on the design of evaluations by central and local governments, NGOs and charities. He is currently an evaluator for the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Food Standards Agency, the Learning and Skills Information Service, and the Educational Endowment Foundation. He is author of over 1,000 books and papers.

His 20+ books include:

Gorard, S., See BH, and Siddiqui, N. (2022) Making schools better for disadvantaged students, Abingdon: Routledge, Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students | The International I (taylorfrancis), 978-1-032-23137-2 (hardback), 978-1-032-26249-9 (paperback), 978-1-
Siddiqui, N. and Gorard, S. (Eds) (2022) Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact, Abingdon: Routledge, 978-1-032-05975-4 (hardback), 978-1-032-06245-7 (paperback), 978-1-003-20136-6 (ebook)
Gorard, S. (2021) How to make sense of statistics: Everything you need to know about using numbers in social science, London: SAGE, ISBN hardback 9781526413819, paperback 9781526413826, ebook 9781529755862
Gorard, S. (2018) Education policy: Evidence of equity and effectiveness, Bristol: Policy Press, ISBN 978-1447342151, 224 pages
Gorard, S., See, BH and Siddiqui, N. (2017) The trials of evidence-based education, London: Routledge, ISBN 9781138209664, 200 pages

• 2013–present Professor of Education, University of Durham

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