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IOE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
1 September 2022
Professors Qing Gu and Alex Bryson join this year鈥檚 leading experts who have been made Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professors Qing Gu and Alex Bryson are among five 果冻影院 academics who have been newly elected听as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.听The Fellows were selected through an independent peer review recognising the excellence and impact of their work听tackling听major issues currently facing the UK.
They join 40 other highly accomplished social scientists elected as new Fellows this autumn, with the cohort representing a balance of practitioners and academics.
As Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership at IOE, Professor Gu leads the UK鈥檚 largest university-based centre for research, teaching, development and innovation in educational leadership.听Her research interests are teacher professional development, school leadership and improvement and intercultural learning.
Professor Gu has led evaluations of DfE-funded Teaching Schools and the Education Endowment Foundation鈥檚 Research Schools Programme in Opportunity Areas. She currently leads the project 'Schools as Enabling Spaces to Improve Learning and Health-Related Quality of Life', which is investigating how primary schools in rural South Africa can strengthen their organisational and professional capacities.
Alex Bryson is Professor of听Quantitative Social Science at the 果冻影院 Social Research Institute听based at IOE. He is an applied labour economist with a background in sociology.听His research focuses on work and employment relations, with a focus on听labour economics, employment relations, and policy evaluation.
Among other active projects, Professor Bryson currently leads an听investigation into听the gender wage gap听over the life course, analysing data across three generations.听He听is also Chief Editor of听Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society听and an editor of the听Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership.
The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social sciences.
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- 果冻影院 Centre for Educational Leadership听
- Department of Learning and Leadership
- 果冻影院 Social Research Institute