Professor John Gray FBA

Sociology Western Europe USA, Canada and/or Mexico
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2000
Subjects
Education, Sociology

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Education

2016 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Education

2001 -

Homerton College University of Cambridge Director of Research

1994 - 2001

The University of Sheffield Lecturer, Professor of Education

1979 - 1994

University of Edinburgh Research Fellow, Centre for Educational Sociology

1975 - 1979

Publications

Reconstructions of Secondary Education

John Gray, Andrew McPherson, David Raffe - Published in 2011 by Routledge

The Supportive School

John Gray, Maurice Galton, Colleen McLaughlin, Barbie Clarke, Jennifer Symonds - Published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Schools on the Edge 2006

John Gray, John MacBeath - Published in 2006 by SAGE Publications Ltd

Quality and Equity in European Education

Hofman, A., Hofman, R., Gray, J., Daly, P. - Published in 2004 by Kluwer Academic Press

Improving Schools: Performance and Potential

John Gray, David Hopkins, David Reynolds, Brian Wilcox, Shaun Farrell, David Jesson - Published in 1999 by Open University Press

Merging Traditions: Future of Research on School Effectiveness and School Improvement (School Development)

Ed. John Gray, David Reynolds, Carol Fitz-Gibbon, David Jesson - Published in 1996 by Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd

Inspecting Schools: holding schools to account and helping schools to improve

John Gray, Brian Wilcox - Published in 1996 by Open University Press

'Good school, bad school' 1995

John Gray, Brian Wilcox - Published in 1995 by Open University Press

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Accounting, auditing and organisations; sociology of quantification and valuation; the practice of regulation and risk management; risk cultures and corporate governance

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Professor Caroline Hoxby FBA

The economics of education; choice and competition among schools and universities; finances of schools and universities; effects of peers on students' achievement; effects of educational investments on productivity

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Professor Dr Wolfgang Streeck FBA

Comparative Political Economy; crisis and conflict in contemporary capitalism; European politics

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