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Stephen Gorard

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I want to make education research better, to improve educational decision-making. Director of Evidence Centre for Education: https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/evidence-centre-education/

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Stephen A. C. Gorard is a British academic who specialises in the sociology of education. He is Professor of Education and Public Policy at Durham University. Stephen Gorard is the most published and cited UK author in education, and in the top ten academic journals worldwide. .. more

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Erin Early @erinearly.bsky.social · Sep 10

Interesting session this morning at #BERA2025 with @sgorard.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social discussing the impact of household income vs free school meal eligibility on academic outcomes in England using the Parent Pupil Matching Dataset.

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Educational Review @edreview.bsky.social · Aug 5

📗 Check out this #BookReview by Xiaomeng Tian of "An international approach to developing early career researchers: a pipeline to robust education research" eds. Stephen Gorard (@sgorard.bsky.social) & Nadia Siddiqui
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Book cover of "An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research"
Edited By Stephen Gorard & Nadia Siddiqui

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Stephen Gorard @sgorard.bsky.social · Apr 24

New free open access paper. How the range of education research expertise has narrowed over 20 years in UK. So-called mixed methods appears to be dying. Most people only know how to do so-called qualitative work. What a shame.

Stephen Gorard @sgorard.bsky.social · Apr 24

And what a waste of public money on initiatives by BA, Nuffield, ESRC and others to extend and improve research methods skills.
Then and now: Twenty years of education research methods use in the United Kingdom - Smith - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library

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Stephen Gorard @sgorard.bsky.social · Apr 19

New open access paper in BERJ. What governments could do to improve school enrolment in India and Pakistan.
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