Mary James Editor & Author

Mary James, AcSS, is part-time Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. She is President of the British Educational Research Association (2011-13). She was a long time member of the Assessment Reform Group and founding editor of The Curriculum Journal. From 2002-2007 she was Deputy Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme, and she subsequently held an ESRC Programme Director’s Fellowship. At the same time she was Director of a major TLRP project on ‘Learning How to Learn’.

Andrew Pollard, AcSS, was Director of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme from 2002-09 and Chair of the UK’s Strategic Forum for Research in Education from 2008-10. He is a former school teacher and his research interests include teaching-learning processes, learner perspectives and the development of evidence-informed classroom practice. He has worked extensively on the effects of national and institutional policies on learning and has directed longitudinal studies on the impact of education legislation on primary school classrooms and on pupil experience and learning from age 4-16.