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University of Durham

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4.08/20/2025

Always positive, enthusiastic, and supportive.

5.04/30/2025

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About Nadia

Professor Nadia Siddiqui is a Professor in the School of Education at Durham University, having joined the institution in 2013. Her research specializations encompass school improvement through equalising opportunities, overcoming challenges of access to education in developing countries such as Pakistan and India, and exploring persistent patterns of poverty and inequalities via large-scale datasets including the National Pupil Database, Parent Pupil Matched Data, Higher Education Statistics Agency data, Annual Status of Education Report data, and Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. She investigates indicators of disadvantage influencing children's academic attainment, well-being, happiness, and pathways to success, alongside evaluating educational programmes designed to interrupt poverty cycles. Key evaluations include Philosophy for Children, summer schools during primary transitions, Fresh Start phonics, and Accelerated Reader. Additional interests involve enhancing the quality of social science research, the role of schools in promoting fairer societies, secondary data analysis, understanding poverty, and capacity building for early career researchers.