School of Social and Political Science

Description

Radhika Gorur is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her research spans education policy and reform; global aid and development in education; data infrastructures and data cultures; accountability and governance; large-scale comparisons; and the sociology of knowledge. She is interested in the social and political lives of data and in how policies get mobilised, stabilised, circulated and challenged. Radhika is a founding director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies, convenor of the Deakin Science and Society Network, and a founding member of the international STudieS network. She is an editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.