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About Dr. Lynne Rogers
Lynne Rogers is a Reader in Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and Co-Director for the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work. She has long-standing interests in teacher/lecturer training and learning in further and higher education and other professional settings. Currently she is the Academic Head of Research Engagement and Impact. She was the Faculty Director of Teaching and Learning throughout 2011–14 in addition to leading the MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education. During 2008–2010 she was the Director of the London Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training. She has extensive experience of education as a teacher and in a range of management positions prior to becoming an academic. She has undertaken research and published in relation to behaviour in school; disengagement from education including the role of alternative curricula; learning, studying and homework in adolescents, educational trajectories of young people and issues relating to music education. Her book, Disengagement from Education, focused on the experiences of young people aged 11 to 19 across a range of contexts including secondary, FE, young offender institutions and alternative provision.