Professor Geoffrey Walford

PhD (Kent) MA MSc MBA (Open) MA (Lon) MA MPhil DLitt (Oxon)

Professor Geoffrey Walford is an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College and Emeritus Professor of Education Policy, Department of Education, University of Oxford.

He was previously Reader in Education Policy at Oxford, and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Education Policy at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.

He has academic degrees from Oxford, Kent, London and the Open Universities, has authored or edited more than 40 books, and published rather too many academic articles and book chapters. He was Joint Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies from 1999 to 2002, and was Editor of the Oxford Review of Education from 2004 to 2010. He remains as a Deputy Editor of Ethnography and Education and serves on several editorial boards.

Professor Walford’s main research foci are the relationships between central government policy and local processes of implementation, private schools, choice of schools, religiously-based schools, and ethnographic research methodology. He remains engaged with various scholarly writing activities working, in particular, on issues connected to private schooling for the poor and social justice. He was awarded a DLitt from Oxford University in 2016.

View a full list of Professor Walford’s publications here.

Contact: geoffrey.walford@gtc.ox.ac.uk