SANDRA LEATON GRAY is Associate Professor of Education at University College London, Institute of Education. Prior to this she was Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia, and director of its newly established BA in Education; Researcher to the Director at the Institute of Education, under Geoff Whitty, and Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Senior Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She is an applied sociology of education specialist who received her PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. She also holds degrees from the London College of Music and the Roehampton Institute. She has published extensively on issues of education professionalism, professional training, education policy, the knowledge economy, curriculum, biometrics and children, artificial intelligence in education and conceptions of time in education. She has served as a education consultant and advisor to national and international organisations including the UK Government, the EU Commission, the OECD, the UK's Royal Colleges of Medicine, the British Dental Association, the International Baccalaureate Organisation, the BBC, Channel 4, Pearson, Kaplan International, the Solicitors' Regulatory Authority, the Biometrics Institute, and the Faculty of Public Health.