A/Prof Radhika Gorur School of Education

Biography

Radhika Gorur is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her research is in the fields of education and education policy, the sociology of quantification and metrics, and critical data studies. She is interested in the social and political lives of data and in how policies get mobilised, stabilised, circulated and challenged. Her research spans education policy and reform; global aid and development; data infrastructures and data cultures; classroom research; and the sociology of knowledge. Radhika is a founding director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies, deputy convenor of the Deakin Science and Society Network, a founding member of the international EDU-STS network, and a member of the TransAsiaSTS Network. She is an Editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.