The sociology of education and social inequalities; policy, governance, teaching, learning, assessment, lifelong learning and the education-work relationship.
Lorraine Dearden's research interests are higher education financing and student loans; socio-economic differences in educational and labour market outcomes; school quality and choice; intergenerational mobility; child adversity and vulnerability; conditional cash transfers; and causal methods.
Psychological and neural mechanisms of selective attention and general intelligence; with methods including cognitive psychology, studies of brain damage, functional brain imaging and neurophysiology
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