Lesley Saunders
Currently Senior Policy Adviser for Research at the General Teaching Council for England, visiting professor at the Institute of Education, London, and Research Fellow at the Department of Education, Oxford University. Fellow of the RSA and published poet.
P ublications include:
Value Added Measurement of School Effectiveness: a Critical Review. Slough: NFER (1999).
Grounding the Democratic Imagination: Developing the Relationship between Research and Policy in Education. Professorial Lecture. London: Institute of Education (2004).
'Teachers' engagement in and with research: supporting integrity and creativity in teaching', Forum, 48, 2, 131–44 (2006).
Educational Research and Policy-making: Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy (Editor). London: Routledge (2007).
A reas of interest/expertise include:
- education policy
- pedagogy, teaching and learning
- teachers' professional formation and development
- accountability and value added measures of performance