I am a Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, at the University of Bristol . I am a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). I was a Programme Director (Economics of Education) and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. I was Director of The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, CMPO from 2004 – 2014, an ESRC-funded Research Centre. I was also Director of The Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change, CUBeC, from 2010 – 2014, a Department for Education-funded Research Centre. Before that I was Faculty Research Dean for the Faculty of Social Science and Law. I am a Governor of NIESR. I sit on several Advisory Boards. I was the Independent Chair of the Board of the Somerset Challenge, 2016 – 2017, a locally-funded School Improvement Initiative.