Professor Lorraine Dearden

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society

Lorraine Dearden is Professor of Economics at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 2.2, ‘HE choices and post-HE destinations to age 25: parental background and effects of higher education funding reform in the UK’.

Lorraine is a quantitative educational researcher who specialises in evaluation methods, and linked administrative and survey data. Her policy focus is on measuring school effectiveness and evaluating the effects of the home environment, education policy and skills formation on child and adult outcomes.