Andrew Ravenscroft

Professor Andrew Ravenscroft

Professor In Education

Professor

Professor of Education and Social and Community Work and Senior Research Advisor

Department of Social Work, Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care

I am a Psychologist, Professor of Education and Social and Community Work and Senior Research Advisor in the School of Childhood and Social Care at the University of East London. I am the cluster Professor covering Social and Community Work programmes. I perform impactful and collaborative interdisciplinary research in educational and community settings that typically theorises, co-designs and evaluates interventions and psychosocial or socio-technical innovations.

I am a Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol), an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) and a Fellow of the RSA, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (FRSA).

Within UEL I am a member of: the Centre for Wellbeing, Community and Inclusion; the Centre for Social Change and Justice; and, an Associate of the Institute for Connected Communities (ICC).

Qualifications

  • C.Psychol, AFBPSS, FRSA, PhD, MSc, BSc, HNC

Areas Of Interest

  • Critical and inclusive education as social and socio-technical Innovation
  • Socio-technical and psychosocial innovation and intervention in educational and community settings.
  • Impactful interdisciplinary mixed methods research and development (including AI/Computational modelling, design-based research, co-design, qualitative and quantitative methods, action research)
  • Mindfulness and innovative mental health intervention
  • Learning and psychosocial development of vulnerable and socially excluded children and young people
  • Dialogue and digital design and literacy

Publications

The last four years of publications can be viewed below. 

Full publications list

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