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Robin Alexander

Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Warwick, and former Professor of Education at the University of Leeds.

He has also undertaken research in many other countries, notably Denmark, Finland, France, India, Russia and the United States, and has worked in development education in Bangladesh and India on behalf of BRAC, DfiD and the EC.

Since 2006, Alexander has directed the Cambridge Primary Review, an independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England, and the biggest such investigation since the 1960s. The Review published 31 interim reports between 2007 and 2009 before its 600-page final report and recommendations, Children, their World, their Education, appeared in October 2009 together with an 850-page companion volume The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys. With continuing support from its sponsor, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Review then entered its current phase of dissemination, policy engagement and network-building for which it was re-constituted as a Faculty Research and Teaching Centre.

Robin Alexander's work has been honoured by prizes, awards, honorary doctorates and visiting chairs, by major marks of recognition from the teaching profession including Europe's largest teaching union, and most recently by election to a fellowship of the British Academy (FBA).