Rate My Professor Andrew Brown

Professor Andrew Brown serves as Honorary Professor in the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he also acts as Senior International Research Advisor, providing strategic support to the centre's research and practice. He is a sociologist of education and Emeritus Professor of Education and Society at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), having joined as a teacher educator in 1987 after teaching in primary and secondary schools in east and north-east London. Throughout his career at IOE, he held key leadership positions, including Interim Director (January to July 2016), Pro-Director for Academic Development (2014-2016), Dean of the Faculty of Policy and Society (2013-2014), and Dean of the Doctoral School (2005-2010). He also served as UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (London) and lead for the UCL 2034 London Strategy (2017-2018).

Professor Brown's research interests include research capacity and capability building, doctoral and research education, digital technology, and the interplay between everyday, professional, and academic discourses and practices. His work spans arts and social sciences, and he has served as Founding Director (Research) of the Institute for Adult Learning under the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (2010-2012), developing a national research strategy in adult vocational education and training. He is a member of the Council of the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Governor at Barking and Dagenham College. As an international consultant, he has contributed to projects on research capacity building and teacher education in Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Romania, Singapore, and South Africa. Notable publications include "Positioning, pedagogy and parental participation in school mathematics: An exploration of implications for the public understanding of mathematics" (Social Epistemology, 2000) and "A grand day out: towards a mode of interrogation of non-school pedagogic sites" (Curriculum Journal, 2000). He co-edited Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the Struggle for Social Justice.