Judy Sebba OBE

Professor Emeritus of Education | Green Templeton College

About me

Judy was awarded an OBE in 2018 and received honorary doctorate from University of Sussex in 2016. She is Emeritus Professor of Education in the Rees Centre, engaging in research mainly on the education of vulnerable children including children in care.

Her research includes factors that contribute to better educational outcomes, a RCT reading intervention combining book-gifting and paired reading and a national research programme developing an evidence base on attachment and trauma training in schools.

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2011
  • ESRC Peer Reviewer
  • Regular reviewer for six journals

Research

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

Reports

Funded Research Projects

Attachment Awareness in Schools Programme (PI)
Timpson Foundation, £750,000
2017-2022
RCT on book-gifting and Paired Reading in England and NI (CI. With Queens.)
ESRC, £749,000
2017-2020
The Educational Attainment and Progress of Children in Need and Children in Care (University of Bristol leading)
The Nuffield Foundation, £314,000
2017-2020