Speakers

Professor Becky Allen is Chief Analyst and a co-founder of Teacher Tapp, the largest teacher survey and professional development tool in the UK. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton and is a former Professor of Education at UCL Institute of Education. Over her academic career she has written extensively on school accountability, admissions, assessment, expenditure and teacher careers. An economist by training and former secondary school teacher, she is an expert in the analysis of large datasets. In 2018 she chaired a Government working group to review how data is used in schools. Her book on teacher careers called ‘The Teacher Gap’ was published in 2018 and her new book ‘The Next Big Thing in School Improvement’ was published in 2021.