Leadership team
Head of Department
Professor Alexandra Allan
Alexandra Allan is the Head of the School of Education. Her research interests reside in the Sociology of Education. Broad areas of interest include gender, social class, ethnicity, academic achievement, and educational transitions.
Email: a.j.allan@exeter.ac.uk
Deputy Head of Department
Professor Lindsay Hetherington
Lindsay Hetherington is an Associate Professor in Science Education. Her research focuses on using sociomaterial and dialogic approaches to think about education with a particular interest in science/environmental education and teacher education.
Email: L.Hetherington@exeter.ac.uk
Director of Research and Impact
Professor Neil Harrison
Neil Harrison is an Associate Professor in Education and Social Justice. He is primarily interested in issues around decision-making and access to higher education, especially for groups who are disadvantaged or marginalised in society.
Director of Education and Student Experience
Professor Annabel Watson
Annabel Watson is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy Education. Her research focuses on the teaching of writing with a particular focus on the role of knowledge about language in writing development, teacher cognition and agency, and writing pedagogy.
Professor Fiona Maine
Professor Maine is the co-director of the Centre for Research in Language and Literacy. In Business, Engagement and Innovation activity Anna Mountford-Zimdars leads on university facing initiatives and Fiona leads on partnerships with external educational stakeholders.
Deputy Head of Department
Professor Anna Mountford-Zimdars
Professor Mountford-Zimdars directs the academic strand of the Centre for Social Mobility. In Business, Engagement and Innovation activity Anna leads on university facing initiatives and Fiona Maine leads on partnerships with external educational stakeholders.
Dr Thomas Ralph
Head of Initial Teacher Education
Thomas Ralph is a Senior Lecturer in Education. His research focuses on children who are resistant to education and the ways in which they act to reappropriate spaces in school and make their voices heard.
