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David RaffeEmail: d.raffe@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6237 Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6239 |
Biographical details
David Raffe is Professor of Sociology of Education and a member of the Centre
for Educational Sociology, which he directed from 1987 to 2001 (jointly
with Andrew McPherson from 1987-1994).
His research interests are in secondary and post-secondary education and
training, transitions between education and the labour market, and policy
initiatives including curriculum and qualifications reforms. His particular
interests include the relation of academic and vocational education and
the comparative study of education systems, including 'home international'
comparisons
within the UK which he helped to pioneer. Recent research projects in
which he has participated include Education
and Youth Transitions in England, Wales
and Scotland 1984-2002 (ESRC), the Evaluation of the Scottish Credit and
Qualifications Framework (Scottish Executive), and the Introduction of
a Unified System of Post-Compulsory Education in Scotland (ESRC). He is currently
a member of the Edinburgh University team providing research-based advice
and expertise to the Scottish Government, a member of the study team reviewing
the implementation and impact of the Irish National Framework of Qualifications,
and a participant in other international
projects. He was co-organiser of a series of policy seminars on mass higher
education in UK and international contexts, completed in 2008, and he
is Convenor of the School Management and Governance Network of the Applied
Educational
Research Scheme. He was the founding chair of the European Research Network
on Transitions in Youth, and he has taken part in several European and
OECD activities, most recently as a member of the working group preparing
the
background questionnaire for the OECD’s Programme on the International
Assessment of Adult Competences.
He is a member of several policy forums including the Scottish Policy
Innovation Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland, and he serves on
the SFC’s Access and Inclusion Committee and the SQA’s Qualifications Committee.
He has been a member of several Scottish Executive/Government committees
including the Curriculum Review Programme Board (2004-07), the School
College
Working Group on Qualifications (chair: 2004-05) and the Duffner Careers
Service Review Committee (1999-2000). He was also a member of the (Tomlinson)
Working Group on 14-19 Education in England. He chairs the Advisory Committee
of the Nuffield
Review of 14-19 Education, for which he wrote the feasibility
and scoping study. He is a member of the Editorial Boards or panels of
the Australian Journal of Education, Irish Educational Studies, Journal of
Education
and Work, Journal of Youth Studies and Research Papers in Education.