Jake Anders is Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO) and Principal Investigator of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study. Jake’s research focuses on better understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities, evaluating policies and programmes aiming to reduce these inequalities, and how best to do this evaluation. One strand of this is the COSMO study, a major longitudinal study funded by UKRI ESRC tracking the unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a cohort of young people particularly acutely affected by the disruption that it caused. Other work includes research projects for multiple UK government departments, such as work for the Department for Education into the transition from education into work, as well as leading multiple randomised evaluations, such as Education Endowment Foundation-funded work focused on improving teachers’ use of formative assessment.
