Professor Jenny Ozga

Before coming to Oxford in Autumn 2010, Jenny Ozga was Professor of Educational Research and Director of the Centre for Educational Sociology (CES).

Before that she was Professor of Education Policy and Dean of Social Sciences at Keele University, and she was also Dean of the Faculty of Education, Bristol Polytechnic/University of the West of England from 1991-93, having previously worked for many years for the Open University.

Jenny Ozga is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, and has been a visiting Professor at the University of Umea, Sweden, a visiting scholar at Helsinki University, Finland and holds an honrary doctorate from Turku University, Finland. She is a member of ESRC’s peer review college.

In 2010 Jenny was commissioned by ESRC to write the review of Sociology of Education for the International Benchmarking Review of the discipline of Sociology.

Research

Jenny’s main research areas are education policy in international comparative contexts, with a focus on governance. Research topics include education and social policy; policy elites and policy communities, policy networks and policy for the teaching profession, within and across the UK and increasingly in the context of Europeanisation of education. Research also includes work on teachers’ work as a labour process, and in schooling and social capital and gender and educational management.  The focus on governance is developing through work on the resources that are mobilized by new governance forms and policy technologies, for example data, knowledge and networks of social relations/social capital.

Jenny Ozga’s recent funded research includes  the European Science Foundation/ESRC  project ‘Fabricating Quality in European Education/Governing by Numbers’ that looked at the Europeanisation of education through data in  England, Scotland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, which she co-ordinated. She is also the co-ordinator of the Scottish team contributing to the project  Knowledge and Policy in the Health and Education Sectors in Europe – with Professor Martin Lawn, Dr Sotiria Grek, Farah Shaik, (CES) and Dr Richard Freeman, Dr Jen Smith and Dr Steve Sturdy (Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh). This project is co-ordinated by Professor Bernard Delvaux and Dr Eric Mangez at the Université Catholique de Louvain .

Her most recent funded project, which started in spring 2010, is the ESRC funded ‘Governing By Inspection: School Inspection and Education Governance in Scotland, England and Sweden’  which she co-ordinatesor with Dr L. Croxford, Professor Martin Lawn, Dr Sotiria Grek from CES, Professor John Clarke, Open University and Professor Christina Segerhom and colleagues at Mid-Sweden University and Uppsala Universities.

Publications

Recent books

• Fabricating Quality in Europe: data and education governance (with Peter Dahler-Larsen, Christina Segerholm and Hannu Simola London, Routledge(forthcoming winter 2010)

Recent articles

• Ozga J (2007) ‘Schooling in Future(s): Learning for Life in Scotland’ (2007) Revue internationale d’éducation de Sevres 46
• Byrne D and Ozga J (2008) Research and Policy: the BERA Academic Review 2006 Research papers in Education 2008, 23 (4) December  1-29
• Ozga J (2008) Governing Knowledge: research steering and research quality, European Educational Research Journal, 7(3), pp.261-272.
• Grek, S.,Lawn M, Lingard, B Ozga, J. Rinne, R., Segerholm, C.and Simola, H. (2009) ‘National policy brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland’  Comparative Education 45(1) 5-22
• Ozga, J. (2009) Governing Education through Data in England: From Regulation to Self-Evaluation, Special Issue of Journal of Education Policy, 24(2) 149-163
• Grek, S. Lawn, M. and Ozga J. (2009) PISA and the policy debate in Scotland: policy narratives about the Scottish participation in the international comparison Sisypho 10 75-86
• Grek S and Ozga J (2010) Governing Education through Data: Scotland, England and the European Education Policy Space British Education Research Journal (issue no not yet known)
• Arnott, M. and Ozga,J. (2010) Education and Nationalism: the discourse of education policy in Scotland Discourse 31(4) 335-351
• Arnott M and Ozga J (2010) Nationalism, Governance & Policy Making in Scotland: The SNP in Power Public Money and Management, vol.30 no.2 (Special Issue Devolution & Narratives of Public Service Reform).
• Grek, S. and Ozga, J. (2010) ‘Re-inventing Public Education: the new role of knowledge in education policy-making’, Public Policy and Administration 25 (3) 271-289
• Ozga, J., Grek, S. and Lawn, M. (2009) ‘The New Production of Governing Knowledge’, Soziale Welt 4 353-371

Recent book chapters

• ‘Travelling and Embedded Policy: the case of post-devolution Scotland within the UK’ in E.Zambeta and D.Coulby (eds) (2005) Globalisation and Nationalism in Education (World Year Book of Education 2005), London Routledge/Falmer.
• ‘Governing Knowledge: A Perspective from the Centre for Educational Sociology’ In Humes W and Bryce T (eds) (2008) Scottish Education:3rd Edition; post-devolution
• ‘Trans-national Technologies and National Contexts: a Comparative Analysis of Education Policy in Scotland and England’ in Kauko, J Rinne R & Kynkäänniemi H (eds) Restructuring the Truth of Schooling – Essays on Discursive Practices in Sociology and the Politics of Education Helsinki, Finnish Educational Research Association
• (with M. Arnott) ‘Education Policy & the SNP Government’ in Scott, G. & Mooney, G. (eds) (2010) Politics of Social Policy in Scotland, Policy Press