Rachel Brooks#
| Membership Number: | 7374 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/rachel-brooks |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8692-1673 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-brooks-601b3b15a/?originalSubdomain=uk |
| Publication Link: | https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/rachel-brooks |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Professor of Higher Education and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford
- 2020 - 2024 Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey
- 2019 - 2020 Professor of Higher Education, Department of Education, Practice and Society, University College London
- 2017 - 2019 Associate Dean for the Doctoral College, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey
- 2012 - 2019 Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
- 2012 - 2016 Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
- 2010 - 2012 Professor of Education and Director of Research in Education, School of Sport and Education, Brunel University
- 2009 - 2010 Reader in Social Policy, Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, University of Surrey
- 2006 - 2009 Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, University of Surrey
- 2004 - 2006 Lecturer in Social Policy, Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, University of Surrey
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of education
- Higher education studies
- Internationalisation of higher education
- Student mobilities
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2025 President, British Sociological Association
- 2022 - 2025 Member of ESRC Council
- 2025 - present Member of UK REF2029 Sub-panel for Education
- 2018 - 2021 Member of UK REF2021 Sub-panel for Education
- 2018 - 2022 Member of Governing Council, Society for Research into Higher Education
- 2020 Member of judging panel, The Guardian University of the Year
- 2012 - 2016 Member of Governing Council, British Sociological Association
- 2010 - present Member of ESRC Peer Review College
- 2024 Best book award, Comparative and International Education Society
- 2023 Best book award, Comparative and International Education Society
- 2022 Best article award, Comparative and International Education Society
- 2021 Best research team award, University of Melbourne
- 2019 - present Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- 2014 - 2015 Brian Simon Educational Research Fellowship Internationalism within English Secondary Schools (PI: Johanna Waters)
- 2009 Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) Award for Teaching and Learning
- 2003 Brian Simon Educational Research Fellowship (awarded by the British Educational Research Association)
- 2003 Society for Research into Higher Education’s Newer Researcher Award
- 2003 British Educational Research Association Prize for the best PhD submitted by a member of the association in the 2002 calendar year
