Professor Geoff Hayward

Professor Geoff Hayward became a Fellow in 2017.  He began his academic career as a research biologist at the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool. He taught in the Further Education sector for five years and was subsequently involved in the training and education of teachers across both Primary and Secondary phases at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, Universities of Oxford and Leeds.  At the University of Oxford’s Department of Education he was one of the directors of the Nuffield 14-19 Review of Education and Training, Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), and the Department’s Director of Research. Subsequently, he was Head of the School of Education at the University of Leeds for three and a half years before joining the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge in October 2014 as the Head of Faculty. He retired in September 2022 and is now an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College. He remains research active working on issues to do with the design of vocational and higher education systems, and helping raise the attainment of young people living in disadvantaged circumstances.