General Overview

I am currently Professor of Education within the School of Education, Queen's University Belfast. My main responsibilities include:

• Founding Director of the NFER at Queen's Centre for Educational Research - a research centre that has attracted over £3 million of external research funding since its launch in July 2005. More information.

• Founding Chair of the Queen's Initiative for the Promotion of Effective Interventions for Children - a cross-university initiative that has been established with an initial investment of £2.7 million and that aims to encourage inter-disciplinary research into the design, delivery and evaluation of services for children based on a children's rights perspective. Further information to appear shortly.

• Founding Co-Director of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and Ethnic Diversity (with Prof. Tony Gallagher) - a major new international initiative funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation aimed at promoting evidence-informed approaches to the design, delivery and evaluation of early childhood diversity programmes in areas characterised by ethnic divisions and/or conflict. Further information to appear shortly.

• Series editor of a new social research methods book series with Routledge. Further information to appear shortly.

Career History

2005 - present	Professor of Education, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast
2003 - 2005	Reader in Education, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast
2001 - 2003	Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies, University of Ulster
1994 - 2001	Lecturer in Sociology, School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies, University of Ulster

Qualifications

2004	MSc (with distinction) in Applied Statistics, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
1995	PhD in Sociology of Education, University of Leicester, UK.
1992	MA (with distinction) in Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
1989	BSocSc (Hons) in Social Administration, University of Birmingham, UK.