Dr Geoff Hayward

Dr Geoff Hayward is a lecturer in Education based at Oxford University's Department for Education. He is the Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), a director of the Nuffield 14-19 Review, co-director of the Oxford Centre for Socio-cultural and Activity Theory (OSAT) and co-convenor of the Higher Education and Professional Learning research group.

Initially trained as a research biologist, Geoff subsequently became a Further Education lecturer, his research interest in vocational education and training stemming from this experience. After a period of secondment to the University of Bath as part of the ground breaking Macmillan post-16 science education project, Geoff returned to Higher Education as a teacher educator, first at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education and then at the University of Oxford.

His current research interests include the economics of education and training, youth transitions into the labour market and higher education, the design of national qualification frameworks, and the relationship between Higher Education and the economy. Qualification design and assessment are central to all of these with a particular focus at the moment being the assessment of practical and applied learning.