Ian Hadden

I'm a researcher at the University of Sussex, where I also lead on delivery for the University's School Inclusion Group. We help school leaders use insights from social psychology to better understand the barriers to learning that some groups of their students might be facing. For example, some groups might feel that they don't really belong at school, or that they have poorer relationships with their teachers than others. We then help schools develop, implement and evaluate an action plan to tackle these barriers and so improve the attendance, behaviour and attainment of their students.

This work leads on from my PhD, which investigated the role of economic, social and cultural context in creating and sustaining inequalities in outcomes between different groups of students.

Previously I specialised in helping large organisations define and deliver complex change programmes. I've supported a £200m UK Department for Education initiative for disadvantaged pupils, and a range of large-scale programmes for FTSE-100 companies including post-acquisition integration and new product rollout.