The Nuffield Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Lorraine Dearden to its Board of Trustees.
Lorraine is Professor of Economics and Social Statistics at the Department of Social Science at the Institute of Education, University College London. She is a renowned specialist in the Economics of Education, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an IZA Fellow.
Lorraine was formerly a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and chaired the research commissioning board of ADR UK, which aims to transform the way researchers access public sector data in a safe and secure way. She was Director of two major ESRC research centres: on methodological issues involved with linking administrative and survey data, and on programme evaluation and policy analysis. Lorraine’s research spans a wide range of policy areas across education, skills and work, including early years and the home learning environment, higher education funding, intergenerational mobility, and the impact of education and training on labour market outcomes and company performance.
As a Trustee, Lorraine will oversee and shape the Foundation’s work to advance educational opportunity and social well-being, which has grown in scale and ambition in recent years. She was appointed following a selection process run by the Nuffield Foundation’s Nominations and Governance Committee and her term as Trustee will begin on 1 May 2021.
Lorraine’s expertise in education, skills and the labour market is very much at the heart of the Nuffield Foundation’s work to advance social well-being. Through her own research she has demonstrated the value of focusing on policy questions that can make a significant difference to addressing inequality and disadvantage within our education system and beyond. Lorraine’s appointment will further strengthen our Board of Trustees at a time when the Foundation is working to help shape the society that emerges from the COVID-19 crisis.Professor Sir Keith Burnett, Chair of the Board of Trustees
I am both honoured and delighted to be appointed as a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. The Foundation’s commitment to improving the life chances of people from disadvantaged backgrounds is something that I care deeply about and has motivated and driven my research throughout my career. I look forward to working with the Foundation to develop a challenging, innovative and exciting research agenda that will help promote educational opportunity and social well-being as we emerge from difficult times.Professor Lorraine Dearden
