Andrew Jenkins
Senior Research Officer
- Qualifications and position:
- BA, MA, M.Phil, PhD.
- Research Fellow
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Policy and Society
- Department:
- Department of Quantitative Social Science
- Summary:
- Andrew Jenkins joined the Institute in 2000 and he is currently
Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits
of Learning.
Andrew's main research interests are in the benefits of adult learning. He has conducted research on the effects of lifelong learning on labour market outcomes and the mental health benefits of learning for older adults. He is interested in methods for the analysis of longitudinal data and also in ways of using longitudinal data to understand social and historical processes.
- Andrew Jenkins joined the Institute in 2000 and he is currently
Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits
of Learning.
- Teaching:
- Quantitative methods. Longitudinal research methods.
- Research Projects:
- Literacy, Numeracy and Disadvantage among Older People in England
Funded by Nuffield Foundation.
Adult Learning and Health Outcomes among Older Adults. Funded by NIACE.
- Literacy, Numeracy and Disadvantage among Older People in England
Funded by Nuffield Foundation.
- Postgraduate Research:
- • Outcomes and Benefits of Education and Adult Learning
• Effects of lifelong learning on labour market outcomes
• Wider benefits of learning including health outcomes for older adults
• Female labour supply and demographic economics
• Methods for the analysis of longitudinal data
• Use of longitudinal data for understanding historical processes
- • Outcomes and Benefits of Education and Adult Learning
- Professional Activities:
- 2000-2008: Research Officer, Centre for Economics of Education, Dept
of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, London.
1998 to 2000: Research Assistant, Centre for Market & Public Organisation, University of Bristol
1994 to 1998: Ph D student, Dept of Economic & Social History, Exeter University
- 2000-2008: Research Officer, Centre for Economics of Education, Dept
of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, London.
- Conferences/presentations:
- "Enhancing Literacy in the Workplace: Outcomes of the Skills for
Life Policy Initiative in Britain." American Educational Research
Association, San Diego, California, April 2009.
"Longitudinal Research Methods in Education." Invited keynote speaker, First Pedagogic Observatory Conference, Technical University of Lisbon, March 2008.
"Educational Data Linkage." Invited speaker at Royal Statistical Society conference on Data Linkage, London, April 2007.
- "Enhancing Literacy in the Workplace: Outcomes of the Skills for
Life Policy Initiative in Britain." American Educational Research
Association, San Diego, California, April 2009.
Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning
Institute of Education
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email: a.jenkins@ioe.ac.uk
