Teaching

Jake regularly contributes to Undergraduate and Graduate teaching across the department and faculty, including co-leading the Economics of Public Policy undergraduate module in the UCL Social Research Institute. Students should generally find resources for these on the relevant UCL Moodle site.

He also regularly supervises Master’s students completing dissertations with a quantitative focus, and supervises doctoral students with a focus on educational inequality and/or evaluation making use of advanced quantitative methods.

He has carried out doctoral supervision in partnership with the Department of Political Science and the Behavioural Insights Team as part of the UCL/BIT PhD Scholarship programme, and the Sutton Trust and the Education Policy Institute as part of ESRC UBEL DTP Collaborative PhD Studentships.

Undergraduate

• SRI: Economics of Public Policy

Postgraduate

Master’s

• DLL: Contemporary Issues
• DLL: Researching Early Years and Primary Education
• EPS: Economic Perspectives on Education Policy
• SRI: Using Stata efficiently and effectively
• CPA: Understanding Research

Doctoral

Jake supervises doctoral students with a focus on educational inequality and/or evaluation making use of advanced quantitative methods.

If you are planning to enquire about his availability to supervise doctoral studies, please ensure that (1) your proposed research directly addresses one of his areas of research interest; (2) your proposed research is quantitative in nature, likely using secondary data, and applying (quasi-)experimental or longitudinal methods, or similar. If your plans do not align with these criteria then he is unlikely to be the right doctoral supervisor for you. If you feel that your plans do align then please get in touch with a CV and full proposal.

Current Doctoral Students

• Tolani Ogundamisi (2026, expected), principal supervisor with Prof. Gill Wyness.
• Robbie Maris (2026, expected), subsidiary supervisor with Prof. Gill Wyness.
• Joshua Uddin (2025, expected), principal supervisor with Prof. Rachael Levy.
• Tom Waters (2025, expected), principal supervisor with Prof. Claire Crawford & Prof. Alex Bryson.
• Emine Pehlivan (2025, expected), subsidiary supervisor with Dr. Stuart Tannock.

Former Doctoral Students

• Silvan Häs (2022), subsidiary supervisor with Prof. John Jerrim. Thesis title: “Socio-economic status and worklessness: educational investments and expectations.” Passed with minor corrections. Now working at ritzenhoefer & company.
• Eliza Kozman (2020), principal supervisor with Prof. Peter John, KCL. Thesis title: “Addressing barriers to university progression for white working-class boys”. Passed with minor corrections. Now working at TASO.
• Sandra Mathers (2019), subsidiary supervisor with Prof. Iram Siraj, Oxford. Thesis title: “Observing Language Pedagogy (OLP): Developing and piloting a contexualised video-based measure of early childhood teachers’ pedagogical language knowledge”. Passed with no corrections. Now working at Oxford Department of Education.
• Bibi Groot (2018), subsidiary supervisor with Prof. Peter John, KCL. Thesis title: “Social support and academic success: field experiments in further education in England”. Passed with no corrections. Now working at Fair HQ.
• Natasha Codiroli Mcmaster (2018), maternity cover supervisor with Prof. Alice Sullivan and Dr. Lindsey Macmillan. Thesis title: “Stratification by field of study in Higher Education”. Now working at UK Government Cabinet Office.