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Dr Andrew Jenkins
Appointment
- Associate Professor
- IOE - Social Science
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science.
Research Summary
Research interests include adult learning, higher education, lifecourse studies and the application of quantitative methods in educational research.
Current/recent projects:
- Why have universities transformed their staffing practices? Changing resource allocation and priorities in higher education.
Funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
- Where does the money come from and where does it go to? Understanding income and expenditure in the UK university system
Based on administrative data from HESA this research provides an analysis of income and expenditure trends and patterns in UK universities.
- Educational trajectories and wellbeing: a lifecourse perspective.
This project looked at the extent of participation in learning in mid-life and later life and its impact on wellbeing at age 50 and beyond using large-scale quantitative data from the 1958 British birth cohort (NCDS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
Teaching Summary
Andrew teaches quantitative methods courses to masters and doctoral students.
He is module leader for Quantitative Analysis 2, an advanced course on regression analysis.
Also module leader for the Introduction to Quantitative Methods which is a module for the On-line MRes in Educational & Social Research.
Doctoral student supervision
Christopher Hein: Essays on the effectiveness and production of teacher inputs (full-time, completed Sept 2015).
Magdalene Karyda: Neighbourhood Effects on Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training in England (part-time, completed Feb 2015).
Núria Mallorquí Ruscalleda: Over-education in the Spanish labour market (part-time, in progress).
Andrea Cegelon: The Effects of Adult Education-Training Programs on the skills of Older Adults: A Cross-National Comparison (part-time, start date: Sept 2017).
Cyril Anyanwu: Rates of Return to Education in sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (full-time, start date: Sept 2018).
