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Professor Nadia Siddiqui is a leading academic in education research at Durham University, affiliated with the School of Education and the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. She joined Durham in 2013 and specializes in school improvement, equity, and the impact of poverty on education. Her work focuses on using large datasets (e.g., National Pupil Database, ASER) to analyze educational disparities in the UK, Pakistan, and India. She leads projects funded by the British Academy, ESRC, and the Education Endowment Foundation.
Her research interests include evaluating educational programs (e.g., Philosophy for Children, summer schools), analyzing school segregation, and promoting evidence-based policy. She has authored four books and over 150 peer-reviewed articles, including the award-winning Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students (BERA 2023). Professor Siddiqui actively advises policy bodies like the Early Intervention Foundation and has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and among UPSIGN’s 75 Notable British Pakistani Academics.
Her recent work examines geographic inequalities in UK education, teacher diversity, and the role of schools in early childhood development. She supervises doctoral students on topics ranging from contextualized admissions to ethnic minority teacher retention.
