Andy Biggart

Andy Biggart is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work. He is actively involved in research, teaching, and supervising doctoral students in education-related fields. His work focuses on educational disadvantage, interventions to reduce inequalities, and youth transitions from education to employment. He has secured funding from organizations like the EU Framework Programmes and the Education Endowment Foundation.

Research Interests:

• Educational Disadvantage and Inequalities
• Educational Interventions and Policy Evaluation
• Youth Transitions to Adulthood
• Early School Leaving Prevention
• Post-Compulsory Education Systems

Recent Research Trends: His publications emphasize randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating educational programs, such as literacy interventions in disadvantaged schools and spaced learning models during exam revisions. Collaborations include multinational studies comparing youth transition policies between Japan and the UK.

Funding and Grants: Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator on projects like FFT Reciprocal Reading Evaluation and Success for All UK, supported by EU, EEF, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Teaching: Coordinates EdD modules on Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Educational Research and teaches research methods at the Masters level.