Lindsey Macmillan

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@lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @clairetyler.bsky.social & Padmini Ayer share key findings and practical recommendations to support employers on their social mobility journey from their research on where inequalities arise in UK graduate recruitment.

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Judy in the house! come join us for CEPEO seminar this week

You can read our new research on inequalities in access to professional occupations, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org here

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Great to speak on the opening panel of the day about higher education and social mobility - improving access to higher education is one route to improve social mobility, but we also need to think about inequalities by institutions, and inequalities that persist beyond education in the labour market

If you're interested in what we said in full, you can read our full submission from @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social which is published here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

I'm glad to see that the broad consensus around social mobility has moved beyond the limited focus on a handful of academically achieving disadvantaged young people 'making it', to the broader definition of equalising opportunities for all young people, regardless of background

Lots of sensible recommendations in the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee report published today, including the importance of place, prevention, and a proper data strategy

publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

Delighted that our research on inequality in access to and progression within professional occupations won an award @appam.bsky.social - thanks to all who stopped by for excellent conversations. And thanks Seattle, it’s been a blast. See you next time!

Saturday night / lunchtime poster session in Seattle 🇺🇸 to talk about our work on inequalities in access to and progression within graduate jobs…. with one eye on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

4/5 | Improving outcomes for children and young people

Join @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, Julia Ellingwood, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and fellow researchers if your work is interested in improving the life chances of children & young people, locally and globally

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193 millionar kroner til forsking for å styrkje utdanningssektoren. Forskingsrådet støttar no 17 forskingsprosjekt for politikkutforming, forvaltning og praksisfelt innan utdanning, læring og kompetanseutvikling. Prosjekta vil bidra til å styrkje kunnskapsgrunnlaget f...

Our project, EduGap, is one of the funded projects. Myself, Jon Marius Iversen (CI), @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @gillwyness.bsky.social, and Richard Murphy (UT-Austin) will look at the effects of assessment forms on student outcomes in Norway and England.

www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025...

CEPEO welcomes the announcements from this week’s education and skills white paper of index-linking tuition fees and maintenance loans, as well as the return of some non-repayable maintenance grants for disadvantaged students. [1/7] 🧵

👀 Important new project led by one of our Senior Research Fellows and funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org

Paul will be looking at changes in student employment and how this helps or hinders their life chances.

Congratulations Paul, we’re looking forward to learning more from this work

📈 We find evidence of discontinuities in favour of female students & against those on Free-School Meals

🎓We show that these biases have consequences for university outcomes

🎙️ Governments' considering increasing reliance on subjective assessments should take steps to mitigate this bias

📖 New Working Paper

"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"

😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade

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@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

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Come and join our wonderful team and help support the important work we do. Hybrid working options too

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

Jo Blanden (CEP), @GillWyness.bsky.social (CEP), @Opmc1.bsky.social (UCL) and @LindseyMacmillan.bsky.social could explain why private school pupils are more likely to end up in higher-ranked HE courses than peers with similar grades.

Read:

Join us at 3.15pm, Grace suite 2, Hilton Hotel, @suttontrust.bsky.social to hear new research on why the privately educated still dominate top jobs -

I'll be discussing a number of new @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research papers on inequalities in access to top jobs econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Join us this afternoon for a panel hosted by @suttontrust.bsky.social to hear new research on why the privately educated still dominate top jobs -

I'll be discussing a number of new @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research papers on inequalities in access to top jobs econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Looking forward to seeing people at various events and panel sessions!

A new age of work: how Labour can seize the agenda on dignity at work UCL Policy Lab panel at Labour Party Conference 2025 in partnership with Timewise

Arriving in Liverpool:

Today 1.30-2.30pm @uclpolicylab.bsky.social panel 'A new age of work' - discussing youth LM

Tomorrow 3.15-4.30pm @suttontrust.bsky.social panel 'Elitist Britain' - discussing @nuffieldfoundation.org funded work on access to professions

www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/e...

Crikey

I regularly come back to this graph when talking to people about how we’re in a really different world now.

And important to note that these are for EHCP only. There will be many more young people with SEND for these conditions, but no EHCP

We have an exceptional seminar on Thursday this week at 11am, with Dr Julie Cohen of University of Virginia:
"Experimental evidence on modularising context in teacher education"
Sign up now: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We must clear a path for young people outside full-time education As GCSE results land, we should realise that training alongside decent work is a better next step for some 16-year-olds

We should not accept 1 in 8 of our 16-24 year olds shut out of learning or earning. Dreadful for young people, economy & society.

Purposeful government can make a difference - but it will require learning lessons, real focus & new resource. Me in the @financialtimes.com

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Signed up for @appam.bsky.social 2025 in Seattle - who’s in? @joshua-goodman.com @dynarski.bsky.social @chloergibbs.bsky.social?? @gillwyness.bsky.social

A level results are out! And as many have reported, there was an overall improvement in the proportion of students gaining the top grades.

But its not good news for everyone: with London & the South East continuing to pull away from the rest of the country, and boys slightly ahead of girls.

This looks potentially useful for junior scholars.

"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"

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