Anna Vignoles

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Anna Vignoles
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Anna Frances Vignoles
NationalityBritish
Academic career
Institution Leverhulme Trust
Alma mater Newcastle University
SOAS University of London

Anna Frances Vignoles CBE FBA is a British educationalist and economist. She is the Director of the Leverhulme Trust, taking up her position in January 2021. Previously, she was Professor of Education and fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on the economic value of education and issues of equity in education. She was elected as a fellow of the British Academy [1] in 2017.

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Vignoles also held the following positions until taking on her current role: Trustee of The Nuffield Foundation; [2] Member of the ESRC Council; [3] Co-Chair, Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery (C2D3), University of Cambridge; [4] Board Member, Cambridge Enterprise; [5] Member of the advisory board of the Sutton Trust; [6] Associate Editor, Education Economics and The Cambridge Journal of Education [7] [8]

Early life

She was born in the Philippines. She is the daughter of Ampleforth-educated Philippe (Philip) Maurice Vignoles (23 March 1943 - 24 January 2002) of East Horsley and Lucy Ronca from Amberley, Gloucestershire, who married at Woodchester Priory on Saturday 4 June 1966, conducted by Roman Catholic John Petit (bishop). [9] [10] [11]

Charles Blacker Vignoles FRS is her great-great grandfather. Her grandfather's first marriage was in 1900 in Essex; Walter Adolph Vignoles served as a Lt Col in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in WWI, later living in Grimsby; he remarried in 1942 in Middlesex, living in East Horsley until 1953. The musician Roger Vignoles is the son of her father's elder half-brother (born in Grimsby); her half-cousin. [12]

Research

Anna’s work is in the area of Economics of Education, with a key focus on the economic value of education. [13] [14] She researches the ways in which the school system does or does not improve social mobility and ensures that people have the skills they need for the modern labour market. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] She is known for her work using large scale data to illuminate the unequal educational and economic outcomes for children growing up in various family circumstances, [22] as well as her research into how well the education system is meeting the needs of both individuals and the wider economy. [23] Her research has suggested ways to reduce the large socioeconomic inequalities in education achievement that are present in the UK. [24] [25]

Academic career

Vignoles received a BA Hons in Economics with Politics from SOAS, University of London and earned her PhD from Newcastle University in 1998. [26]

Since then she has held many positions including Research Fellow at IZA in 2008 [27] and prior to her appointment as Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, she was Professor of Economics of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, Research Fellow at the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education. She was a fellow of the Institute of Fiscal Studies from 2011 to 2015.

Awards and honours

Wonk of the Year 2018, WonkHE [28]

Winner of the British Education Journal Annual Editors' Choice Award 2016 [29]

Winner of the Economic Journal exceptional contribution to reviewing 2017 [30]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to social sciences. [31]

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  2. ↑ "Trustees | Nuffield Foundation". www.nuffieldfoundation.org. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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  5. ↑ "Our Board". Cambridge Enterprise. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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  10. ↑ Times Tuesday 28 December 1965, page 8
  11. ↑ Times Friday 26 March 1943, page 1
  12. ↑ Grandfather
  13. ↑ Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill; Agasisti, Tommaso; López-Torres, Laura (29 December 2017). Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN   9781785369070.
  14. ↑ Machin, Stephen; Vignoles, Anna (5 June 2018). What's the Good of Education?: The Economics of Education in the UK. Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691188652.
  15. ↑ Burgess, Simon; Greaves, Ellen; Vignoles, Anna (22 May 2019). "School choice in England: evidence from national administrative data" (PDF). Oxford Review of Education. 45 (5): 690–710. doi:10.1080/03054985.2019.1604332. hdl:1983/c8cd3e20-dda0-4dc3-a231-90b81c4eb722. ISSN   0305-4985. S2CID   182821885.
  16. ↑ Burgess, Simon; Greaves, Ellen; Vignoles, Anna; Wilson, Deborah (2015). "What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice". The Economic Journal. 125 (587): 1262–1289. doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12153 . hdl: 1983/8a280949-3271-4439-8c79-9d46f621eadf . ISSN   1468-0297.
  17. ↑ Britton, Jack; Dearden, Lorraine; Shephard, Neil; Vignoles, Anna (2019). "Is Improving Access to University Enough? Socio-Economic Gaps in the Earnings of English Graduates". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 81 (2): 328–368. doi: 10.1111/obes.12261 . ISSN   1468-0084.
  18. ↑ Vermunt, Jan D.; Ilie, Sonia; Vignoles, Anna (6 September 2018). "Building the foundations for measuring learning gain in higher education: a conceptual framework and measurement instrument". Higher Education Pedagogies. 3 (V1): 266–301. doi: 10.1080/23752696.2018.1484672 .
  19. ↑ Dearden, Lorraine; McIntosh, Steven; Myck, Michal; Vignoles, Anna (2002). "The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in Britain" (PDF). Bulletin of Economic Research. 54 (3): 249–274. doi:10.1111/1467-8586.00152. ISSN   1467-8586. S2CID   16745237.
  20. ↑ Vignoles, Anna; McIntosh, Steven (1 July 2001). "Measuring and assessing the impact of basic skills on labour market outcomes" (PDF). Oxford Economic Papers. 53 (3): 453–481. doi:10.1093/oep/53.3.453. ISSN   0030-7653.
  21. ↑ Dolton, Peter; Vignoles, Anna (1 April 2000). "The incidence and effects of overeducation in the U.K. graduate labour market". Economics of Education Review. 19 (2): 179–198. doi:10.1016/S0272-7757(97)00036-8. ISSN   0272-7757.
  22. ↑ Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Goodman, Alissa; Vignoles, Anna (February 2013). "Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data: Widening Participation in Higher Education" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society). 176 (2): 431–457. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01043.x. hdl: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01043.x . S2CID   9491062.
  23. ↑ Zhu, Yu; Walker, Ian; Vignoles, Anna; Sibieta, Luke; Erve, Laura van der; Dickson, Matt; Dearden, Lorraine; Buscha, Franz; Britton, Jack (27 November 2018). "The impact of undergraduate degrees on early-career earnings". www.ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  24. ↑ Wyness, Gill; Vignoles, Anna; Macmillan, Lindsey; Gregg, Paul; Crawford, Claire (1 January 2016). "Higher education, career opportunities, and intergenerational inequality". Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 32 (4): 553–575. doi: 10.1093/oxrep/grw030 . ISSN   0266-903X.
  25. ↑ Vignoles, Anna; Tyler, Claire; Macmillan, Lindsey (July 2015). "Who Gets the Top Jobs? The Role of Family Background and Networks in Recent Graduates' Access to High-status Professions" (PDF). Journal of Social Policy. 44 (3): 487–515. doi:10.1017/S0047279414000634. ISSN   0047-2794. S2CID   143275185.
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  27. ↑ "Anna Vignoles | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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  29. ↑ "BERJ Editors' Choice Award - BERA Awards | BERA" . Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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