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Communicating research to support the evolution of teaching


THE LEARNUS COUNCIL TEAM


Richard Newton Chance - Chair
Former Principal of Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Devon, Educational Consultant

Professor Derek Bell

Director of Learnus, Professor of Education,
The College of Teachers, Visiting Research Associate, UCL Institute of Education

Chris Green

Chairman of Learning Skills Research Foundation
Former CEO of The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA)

Caroline Shott
Founder and CEO of Learning Skills Research Foundation.  CEO of Learnus and Maths Anxiety Trust


Paul Brett
Trustee of Learning Skills Research Foundation

Fay Cosgrove
Primary school teacher since 2005, regional lead practitioner for numeracy, a facilitator for the Outstanding Teacher Programme and consults on the Welsh government's expert panel. She has master's degrees in Education and Social Science Research Methods and has conducted research for the National Network for Excellence in Maths.

Dr Helen Darlington
Faculty Progress Leader for Science at South Wirral High School

Jeremy Dudman Jones

Former Assistant Head Teacher of Greenford High School, Middlesex

Jane Emerson

Founder and Director of Emerson House, a specialist centre for dyscalculia and dyslexia

Sylvia Gattas
Sylvia is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Gaia Scerif and Dr. Alex Hendry. She currently serves as the co-president of the trainee board of the International Mind Brain and Education Society (IMBES). 

Jo Van Herwegen
Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education,  Academic Head of Research for Psychology and Human Development, UCL
Director of Centre for Educational Neuroscience

Dr Anne Hudson
Taught, mostly in inner London secondary schools, for 33 years. Her work to raise achievement, drawing on research, included headship in two large London comprehensives and the ongoing role of school improvement partner for some inner London schools.


Professor Alice Jones Bsc PhD
Senior Lecturer and Director of School and Family Studies, Goldsmith's, University of London

Dr Kendra McMahon
Reader in Education at Bath Spa University, co-lead of the Centre for Research in Scientific and Technological Education and Learning. Her research and writing is on science education, particularly in primary schools, and in this context she has researched formative assessment, dialogic talk and is now exploring education and neuroscience.

Pat Reed
Former Head of Learning Support at Alleyn's Junior School

Dr Rebecca Torrance-Jenkins
Science Teacher, Learning Consultant and writer for academic, teaching and parent audiences about how educational neuroscience and psychology can be used to better understand and help young people learn

Lysandra Sinclair-Harding

Doctoral Researcher in Psychology, Neuroscience and Education at University of Cambridge