Throughout her career Professor Becky Francis CBE has sought to maximise the impact of academic research by working closely with teachers and policymakers. She has spearheaded high-profile research programmes assessing the impact of major reforms in the English school system on educational inequalities and is sought out internationally and nationally as an advisor to Governments on education policy.
Becky’s academic expertise and extensive publications centre on social identities and educational achievement. Her policy research and analysis has focused particularly on school quality and structures in relation to social equality. Analysis of educational inequalities and their causes, and means for their remediation, has been the consistent focus of her career, culminating in her leadership of the EEF whose mission is to use
research evidence to challenge the socioeconomic gap for educational attainment.
Becky’s previous roles include:
• Chief Executive Officer of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) since 2019
• Director of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
• Professor of Education and Social Justice at King’s College London
• Director of Education at the Royal Society of Arts
• Standing Advisor to the Parliamentary Education Select Committee