Jake Anders

• Professor of Quantitative Social Science,
  University College London;
• Deputy Director,
  UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO);
• Principal Investigator,
  COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO)

Jake’s research focuses on better understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities, evaluating policies and programmes aiming to reduce these inequalities, and how best to do this evaluation. Jake has published widely across economics, psychology, sociology, and education journals on these issues. For more information you can view his UCL Research Profile.

Jake is involved in research and education activities in collaboration with colleagues across UCL, particularly in Quantitative Social Science, the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, LLAKES Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances, Department of Political Science and Policy Lab.

Other Affiliations

• Adjunct Member, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre University of Newcastle, NSW
• Expert, Economics Observatory

Regular Collaborators

• Richard Dorsett, Centre for Employment Research, University of Westminster
• Francis Green, LLAKES Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances, UCL
• Golo Henseke, LLAKES Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances, UCL
• John Jerrim, Quantitative Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute
• Morag Henderson, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Social Research Institute
• Lindsey Macmillan, UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
• Philip Parker, Institute for Positive Psychology, Australian Catholic University
• Michael Sanders, Policy Institute, King’s College London
• Nikki Shure, Quantitative Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute
• Sam Sims, UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
• Gill Wyness, UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
• Dominic Wyse, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 Years), UCL

Previous Activities

Previously, Jake has been a Departmental Head of Research in UCL Institute of Education, a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, worked for the House of Commons Education Committee, and completed a PhD in Economics of Education at UCL under the supervision of Profs. Lorraine Dearden and John Micklewright.

• Head of Research, Department of Learning and Leadership, UCL Institute of Education
• Research Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
• Associate Fellow, Jacob’s Foundation Pathways to Adulthood programme
• Doctoral Student, UCL Social Research Institute
• Committee Specialist, House of Commons Education Committee
• Policy Specialist, The Education Partnership
• PPE Undergraduate & Scholar, New College, University of Oxford

See further details on his CV.