Andrew Pollard

Who is Andrew Pollard?

Professor Andrew Pollard is an Assistant Director with responsibility for Research Impact at the Institute of Education, University of London, and a Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. He chairs the Education Sub-panel for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework on behalf of UK Higher Education Funding Councils. Formerly, he was Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme from 2002-09 — the UK's largest ever research investment in education, of the UK Strategic Forum for Research in Education from 2008-11 and of ESCalate, the Education Subject Centre of the UK's Higher Education Academy. He is Chairman of William Pollard & Co. Ltd. a print and communications company, founded in 1781 and based Exeter.

He received his BA in Sociology and Economics from the University of Leeds, PGCE in Education from the University of Lancaster, M.Ed from the University of Sheffield and PhD in the Sociology of Education from the University of Sheffield.

As a former school teacher, Pollard's research interests include teaching-learning processes and learner perspectives, as well as the development of evidence-based classroom practice. He is responsible for a popular series of textbooks and support materials on reflective teaching within primary and secondary schooling.