Professor Pamela Sammons
Academic Background
University of Bristol (Geography with Economics) BSocSci 1977
City of London Polytechnic (CNAA) PhD 1986
Pam Sammons is a Professor of Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford (appointed October 2009). Previously she was a Professor at the University of Nottingham (2004-2009). She spent 11 years at the Institute of Education University of London (1993-2004) where she was awarded a readership and a personal chair as a Professor of Education and appointed Coordinating Director of its International School Effectiveness & Improvement Centre (1999-2004). She spent three years as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Educational Research at the London School of Economics (1990-1993). Prior to this she was a Senior Researcher at the Research and Statistics Branch of the Inner London Education Authority (1981-1990) where she developed her interest in policy relevant educational research.
Pam completed her undergraduate studies in social geography at the University of Bristol and conducted her doctoral work on the factors that influenced student participation in vocational further education while employed as a research assistant at the City of London Polytechnic (1978-1981).
Postgraduate Teaching
Educational Research Methods MSc
Educational Effectiveness
Other Information
Expert member of the Government Science Office review of the DCSF’s use of research and evidence in developing and informing policy 2010.
Expert technical adviser to the KS3 DCSF Advisory Group on the abolition of KS3 national assessment tests and the development of school report cards 2010.
FRSA 1999 onwards.
Links
See also Professor Sammons' personal web page and Oxford University's Department of Education website.
