Anna Vignoles#
| Membership Number: | 5933 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9268-212X |
| Twitter: | @AnnaVignoles |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Director, Leverhulme Trust
- 2012 - 2021 Professor of Education ('1938' - title of chair), University of Cambridge - and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
- 2003 - 2012 Professor in Economics of Education, UCL Institute of Education
- 1998 - 2003 Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics (and Deputy Director, Centre for Economics of Education)
- 2001 - 2002 Economist on secondment to the Department of Education and Skills [now the Department of Education], UK Government
Fields of Scholarship
- Economics of education
- Measuring learning gain in higher education
- Socio-economic inequalities in pupil attainment
- Social class differences in childhood cognitive development
- Socio-economic inequalities in access to higher education
Honours and Awards
- Fellow, British Academy
- 2018 CBE [Commander of the British Empire] for services to research into the economics of Education
- 'Wonk of the Year', WonkHE [the most authoritative policy focused (and web-based) HE journal in the UK]
- 2018 Winner, Economic Journal exceptional contribution to reviewing
- 2016 Winner, British Education Journal Annual Editor's Choice Award
