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Prof Sandy Oliver
Room G1
10 Woburn Square
London
WC1H 0NR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7612 6747
Appointment
- Professor of Public Policy
- IOE - Social Research Institute
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
Sandy joined the Institute of Education in 1995. She became a founding member of the EPPI-Centre (the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre) and developed a stream of work addressing Perspectives, Participation and Research. She directed the work of the Social Science Research Unit from 2015 to 2020.
Sandy is now Professor of Public Policy at UCL Social Research Institute and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.
She is a member of the Board of the Campbell Collaboration, a Cochrane editor with two review groups - Consumers and Communication, and Infectious Diseases - and was a co-convenor of the Cochrane Agenda and Priority Setting Methods Group. She is a founder member of the Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS) and co-edits ‘Research for All’ an open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on research that involves universities and communities, services or industries working together.
Sandy is now Professor of Public Policy at UCL Social Research Institute and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.
She is a member of the Board of the Campbell Collaboration, a Cochrane editor with two review groups - Consumers and Communication, and Infectious Diseases - and was a co-convenor of the Cochrane Agenda and Priority Setting Methods Group. She is a founder member of the Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS) and co-edits ‘Research for All’ an open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on research that involves universities and communities, services or industries working together.
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Research Summary
For thirty years Sandy's interests have focused on the interaction between researchers and people making decisions in their professional and personal lives. With this in mind she has been developing methods to collate knowledge from whole bodies of research – systematic reviews – not just single studies, and to involve policy makers, practitioners and people using public services in decisions about what research should be done, and how.
This work has spanned a broad range of research methodologies and many academic disciplines. Originally she worked in health and education. Most recently her work has been in the area of socio-economic development and humanitarian aid where she has conducted systematic reviews and built up a programme of support for research teams conducting reviews elsewhere.
Teaching Summary
Sandy supervises students completing their masters dissertations and doctoral theses.
Academic Background
| 1981 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Surrey | |
| 1976 | Bachelor of Arts | University of York |
