IOE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Professors Qing Gu and Alex Bryson are among five UCL academics who have been newly elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Fellows were selected through an independent peer review recognising the excellence and impact of their work tackling major issues currently facing the UK.

They join 40 other highly accomplished social scientists elected as new Fellows this autumn, with the cohort representing a balance of practitioners and academics.

As Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership at IOE, Professor Gu leads the UK’s largest university-based centre for research, teaching, development and innovation in educational leadership. Her research interests are teacher professional development, school leadership and improvement and intercultural learning.

Professor Gu has led evaluations of DfE-funded Teaching Schools and the Education Endowment Foundation’s Research Schools Programme in Opportunity Areas. She currently leads the project 'Schools as Enabling Spaces to Improve Learning and Health-Related Quality of Life', which is investigating how primary schools in rural South Africa can strengthen their organisational and professional capacities.

Alex Bryson is Professor of Quantitative Social Science at the UCL Social Research Institute based at IOE. He is an applied labour economist with a background in sociology. His research focuses on work and employment relations, with a focus on labour economics, employment relations, and policy evaluation.

Among other active projects, Professor Bryson currently leads an investigation into the gender wage gap over the life course, analysing data across three generations. He is also Chief Editor of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society and an editor of the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership.

The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social sciences.

Links

• View the full list of Autumn 2022 Fellows
• Professor Alex Bryson’s academic profile
• Professor Qing Gu's research profile 
• UCL Centre for Educational Leadership 
• Department of Learning and Leadership
• UCL Social Research Institute