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Stephen Gorard

@sgorard.bsky.social

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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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.

10.09.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of "An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research"
Edited By Stephen Gorard & Nadia Siddiqui

Book cover of "An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research" Edited By Stephen Gorard & Nadia Siddiqui

πŸ“— 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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doi.org/10.1080/0013...

05.08.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

24.04.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

24.04.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New open access paper in BERJ. What governments could do to improve school enrolment in India and Pakistan.
doi.org/10.1002/berj...

19.04.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ethnicity not key factor in England school exclusions, study finds Exclusive: Researchers say poverty and special educational needs are main reason – but equality campaigners urge caution

Interesting article on recent research on school exclusions using data from the Department for Education.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

31.01.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Journal | STSL STSL Press is an international platform for researchers, scientists, engineers, managers, doctors, and professors involved in all streams of research with the purpose of publishing high-quality resear...

Open access paper. Are ethnic minority students treated differently by teachers of the same ethnicity in England?
@nadiasiddiqui22.bsky.social
doi.org/10.71002/res...

11.03.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Open access paper. Patterns of school suspensions/exclusions by ethnicity in England.
@nadiasiddiqui22.bsky.social
t.co/AuMni3Gku

11.03.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New open access paper. What helps to attract ethnic minority teachers in England? We asked 4,000 serving teachers about moving jobs and leaving the profession.
@nadiasiddiqui22.bsky.social

www.stslpress.org/static/uploa...

11.03.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Is There One Rule for Our Universe? with Jonathan Gorard
YouTube video by Event Horizon Is There One Rule for Our Universe? with Jonathan Gorard

Is There One Rule for Our Universe? with Jonathan Gorard

youtu.be/MU35Iu2--iI

20.12.2024 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do School Exclusions and Attainment Outcomes Disproportionately Impact Minority Ethnic Pupils? Analysis of Pupil Characteristics, Segregation, and Outcomes in England Large-scale administrative datasets show disproportionate figures for attainment outcomes and school exclusions for pupils in some ethnic groups in England. This surface gap in attainment and school e...

The journal article is here. Gorard a reliable person when it comes to interpreting DfE data.
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

31.01.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do School Exclusions and Attainment Outcomes Disproportionately Impact Minority Ethnic Pupils? Analysis of Pupil Characteristics, Segregation, and Outcomes in England Large-scale administrative datasets show disproportionate figures for attainment outcomes and school exclusions for pupils in some ethnic groups in England. This surface gap in attainment and school e...

Do School Exclusions And Attainment Outcomes Disproportionately Impact Minority Ethnic Pupils? Analysis Of Pupil Characteristics, Segregation, And Outcomes In England

by School of Education authors N. Siddiqui, S. Gorard, B.H. See (U. of Birmingham) & Y. Gao:

doi.org/10.3390/educsci15010006

08.01.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper describes, and lays out an argument for, the use of a procedure to help groups of reviewers to judge the quality of prior research reports. It argues why such a procedure is needed, and ho....

Judging the relative trustworthiness of research results: How to do it and why it matters (Gorard, 2024)

#eduresearch

bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

14.08.2024 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Journal | STSL STSL Press is an international platform for researchers, scientists, engineers, managers, doctors, and professors involved in all streams of research with the purpose of publishing high-quality resear...

Open access paper. Are ethnic minority students treated differently by teachers of the same ethnicity in England?
@nadiasiddiqui22.bsky.social
doi.org/10.71002/res...

11.03.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Open access paper. Patterns of school suspensions/exclusions by ethnicity in England.
@nadiasiddiqui22.bsky.social
t.co/AuMni3Gku

11.03.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New open access paper. What helps to attract ethnic minority teachers in England? We asked 4,000 serving teachers about moving jobs and leaving the profession.
@nadiasiddiqui22.bsky.social

www.stslpress.org/static/uploa...

11.03.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just arrived on Bluesky, trying it out. Looking for who to follow, and for followers. Want to move away from what Twitter is now.

10.03.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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