Barry Cooper and Judith Glaesser
Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Education at Durham University where he was, from 1998 to 2005, Director of Research in Education. He was from 2004-2007 co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal. His interests are in the sociology of education, especially social class, educational achievement and assessment, set-theoretic research methods and the evaluation of educational aid projects. His most recent book was, with Máiréad Dunne, Assessing Children's Mathematical Knowledge: Social class, sex and problem-solving. A new book, Cooper, Glaesser, Gomm and Hammersley's Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis will be published by Continuum in 2012.
School of Education
United Kingdom
Email: barry.cooper@durham.ac.uk
Judith Glaesser
Judith Glaesser is an ESRC Research Fellow in the School of Education at Durham University, where she will become a lecturer in October 2011. Her interests include sociology of education, inequality and meritocracy in education, and research methods, particularly QCA. She gained a PhD at Konstanz University (published as Soziale und individuelle Einflüsse auf den Erwerb von Bildungsabschlüssen). With Barry Cooper, she is applying case-based methods in comparing transitions in English and German secondary schools. A new book, Cooper, Glaesser, Gomm and Hammersley's Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis will be published by Continuum in 2012.
United Kingdom
Email: Judith.Glaesser@durham.ac.uk
