Dr Lucy Prior
PhD, MSci
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Education
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Intersectional variation in UK education and health: exploring biosocial pathways of intra- and inter-generational inequalities
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/01/2025 to 31/12/2026
How should we measure school performance and hold schools accountable? A study of competing statistical methods and how they compare to Progress 8
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
Summary
In 2016, the Department for Education radically overhauled their secondary school accountability system and introduced 'Progress 8', arguing it to be the simplest and fairest school performance measure to date.…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
24/09/2018 to 30/09/2022
Publications
Recent publications
03/08/2024Sociodemographic inequalities in student achievement
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Student intersectional sociodemographic and school variation in GCSE final grades in England following COVID-19 examination cancellations
Oxford Review of Education
School differences on whether and where students apply to university
British Journal of Sociology of Education
A comparison of value-added models for school accountability
School Effectiveness and School Improvement
Student mobility
British Educational Research Journal
Thesis
The stress pathway
Supervisors
Award date
01/10/2019