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Emeritus Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Professor Geoff Hayward is emeritus professor of Education albeit teaching and research active. He was Head of Faculty in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include vocational education and training policy and practice; social disadvantage and education; transitions into Higher Education and the labour market; learning transfer. He now works as an international educational consultant currrently focussed on teacher education reform, quality management in education, and raising the attainment of young people.
He started his academic career as a research biologist at the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool. He taught in the Further Education sector for five years and has been involved in the training and education of teachers across both Primary and Secondary phases at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, Universities of Oxford and Leeds. At the University of Oxford’s Department of Education he was one of the directors of the Nuffield 14-19 Review of Education and Training, Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) and the Director of Research. Subsequently, he was Head of the School of Education at the University of Leeds for three and a half years before joining the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge in October 2014.