About
Dr Nicola (Nic) Pensiero is an Associate Professor in Quantitative Education and Social Science at 网络彩票APP下载_澳客彩票网-官方游戏, Education School at the University of 网络彩票APP下载_澳客彩票网-官方游戏,.
Nic is happy to supervise motivated PhD researchers with projects on education and social stratification using theoretical and/or methodological innovative approaches, including:
- Evaluation of education and social policy
- Educational choices
- Comparative studies of education system characteristics
- Big data and machine learning in education
- Experimental, agent-based and randomised studies
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Educational inequalities
- Social stratification
- Social Theory
- Political economy
Current research
Nic's current research includes studies on
- Impact of 网络彩票APP下载_澳客彩票网-官方游戏, on educational inequalites in the UK.
- The role of individual decision-making mechanisms in shaping educational inequality by social origins and school segregation.
- Effect of education on political socialisation.
- Effect of upper secondary education system characteristics on skills levels and inequality.
- The political economy of income inequality with a focus on the distributional consequences of privatisation of public services, labour relations and technological innovation.
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Nic has taught on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
Biography
Nicola (Nic) Pensiero is an Associate Professor in Quantitative Education and Social Science at 网络彩票APP下载_澳客彩票网-官方游戏, Education School at the University of 网络彩票APP下载_澳客彩票网-官方游戏,.
Previously, Nic worked at UCL Institute of Education, where he joined in 2013 after completing his PhD at the European University Institute. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with a good record of leading externally funded education research projects. His expertise lies in the use of analytical and choice-based approaches in studying social phenomena such as education programme effectiveness, comparative analysis of the effectiveness of education system characteristics, inequality in educational attainment, school segregation and income inequality.
From a working class background, I have always been interested in abstract ideas. I am grateful to the italian welfare state for the opportunity to study in a very good lyceum and attend university with bursary.