Dr Riikka Hofmann
Position(s):
- University Senior Lecturer
- By-Fellow at Hughes Hall
Contact Information
Email: rjph2@cam.ac.uk
Profile
Riikka Hofmann is a University Lecturer in Faculty of Education where she leads the Research Strand "Dialogue, Professional Change and Leadership" in the Faculty's Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research Group (CEDiR). Her research focuses on leadership and professional change in educational and medical settings, studied from the perspective of sociocultural psychology. She also conducts research on classroom learning and dialogue, having been involved in research in the U.K., Finland and Mexico, as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Pakistan in the Faculty's REAL Centre. Her research utilises a mixed methods approach, drawing both on qualitative approaches, process analyses and evaluation designs. Riikka teaches on the Educational Leadership and School improvement Masters route as well as on a range of Masters research methods courses in the Faculty. She is the coordinator of the Research Methods strand of the Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Assessment and Examinations, ran jointly with Cambridge Assessment. She also collaborates with the Postgraduate Medical Education Centre at Cambridge University Hospitals at Addenbrooke's, the Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Riikka is an expert member of a Cabinet-Office led Cross-Whitehall trials advisory panel, she advises various Government departments on research methods in policy evaluations as well as advising on leadership development in the civil service Future Leaders Scheme.
Dr Sonia Ilie
Position(s):
- Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education
- Research Fellow at Hughes Hall
- Director of Studies (external) in Education at Fitzwilliam College
Contact Information
Email: isi22@cam.ac.uk
Profile
Sonia is a Senior Research Fellow, working on projects related to inequalities in access to, learning during, and outcomes of, education. Her research uses quantitative methods applied to large scale survey data and includes randomised controlled trials of programmes aiming to narrow the socio-economic gap in school attainment and higher education access. She is the lead evaluator of the Network for East Anglian Collaborative Outreach, and researcher and project manager for the Cambridge strand of the LEGACY project. She has published on access to higher education in both England and low- and lower-middle income countries, and has extensive experience as a data analyst on a range of research projects.