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Richard Churches Work

• 2024 - now Director of Research @ Education Development Trust
• 2022 - 2024 Global Head Of Research @ Education Development Trust
• 2003 - 2022 Lead Adviser - Education Reform and Evidence Based Practice @ Education Development Trust
• 2017 - now [Author] Neuroscience for Teachers (with Eleanor Dommett and Ian Devonshire, foreword Susan Greenfield) @ Crown House Publishing
• 2016 - now [Author] Teacher-Led Research (with Eleanor Dommett) @ Crown House Publishing
• 2011 - now [Author] Learning and the Brain (with Eleanor Dommett and Ian Devonshire) @ Teachers' Pocketbooks
• 2010 - now [Author] Effective Classroom Communication @ Teachers' Pocketbooks
• 2018 - now [Author] Neuroscience for Teachers (with Eleanor Dommett and Ian Devonshire, foreword Susan Greenfield) @ Hawker Brownlow Education
• 2022 - 2023 Team Leader - What Works Hub Evidence-Based Supervision in Sierra Leone @ Foreign And Commonwealth Office Asia Pacific
• 2014 - 2022 [Client contract] Programme Director for the Future Teaching Scholars programme @ Department for Education
• 2019 - 2022 [Client contract] Technical Research Lead: Reducing Workload Teacher-Practitioner Research Programme @ Department for Education
• 2014 - 2016 [Client contract] Technical Director for Closing the Gap: Test and Learn @ Department for Education
• 2020 - 2022 [Client Contract] Programme Lead - Exploring Science Pedagogy Using Scientific Method [Teacher RCTs] @ Wellcome Trust
• 2020 - 2020 [Client Contract] Quality Assurance Lead – Education During Emergency Plan (EDEP), Jordan @ UNICEF
• 2019 - 2019 [Client contract] Technical Lead for Institutional Reviews across Saudi Arabia @ Colleges of Excellence
• 2018 - 2019 [Client contract] Teacher-led RCTs with top 50 Global Teacher Prize nominees @ Varkey Foundation
• 2017 - 2018 [Client contract] Neuroscience-Informed Teacher-Led Randomised Controlled Trials - Research Lead @ Wellcome Trust
• 2016 - 2016 [Client contract] Inception Manager for National Literacy and Numeracy Coaching Programme @ Ministry of Education, Brunei
• 2015 - 2015 [Client contract] Main author Professional Teaching Standards and Leadership Standards @ Ministry of Education – UAE
• 2013 - 2013 [Client contract] Designed and delivered training for all school inspectors in Kuwait @ Ministry of Education, Kuwait
• 2012 - 2013 [Client contract] Research Adviser and Supervisor for Teaching Schools Languages Action Research @ Department for Education
• 2011 - 2011 [Client contract] Programme Design Lead for the New Teacher Development Programme in Saudi Arabia @ Tatweer Company for Educational Services Ltd. (t4edu.com)
• 2011 - 2011 [Client contract] Drafted the framework for the New National Professional Qualification for Headship @ Teaching
• 2010 - 2010 [Client contract] Principal Consultant for Programme Design, Financial Capability across the UK @ Learning and Skills Improvement Service
• 2003 - 2010 [Client contract] Programme National Design Lead and Principal Consultant for Fast Track Teaching @ National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services (formerly NCSL)
• 2005 - 2008 [Client contract] Lead Consultant for two London Challenge Workstreams @ National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services (formerly NCSL)
• 2004 - 2006 [Client contract] Managing Editor, National Professional Qualification for Headship Study Materials @ National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services (formerly NCSL)
• 2007 - 2010 [Client contract] National Programme Director for the New Secondary Curriculum Foundation Subjects @ Department for Education
• 2007 - 2008 [Client contract] Strategic Programme Design Lead for Learning Outside the Classroom @ Department for Education
• 2009 - 2009 [Client contract] Training and accrediting DSIB School Inspectors @ Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau
• 2003 - 2005 Ofsted Inspector @ Ofsted
• 2001 - 2003 Advanced Skills Teacher and Senior Leadership Team Member @ Woolwich Polytechnic School
• 1997 - 2001 Head of Year then Senior Leadership Team Member @ Battersea Technology College
• 1998 - 1999 Secondment (one day a week while employed at Battersea Technology College) @ Garratt Park Special School (MLD)
• 1991 - 1997 Head of Department @ Adams' Grammar School
• 1989 - 1991 Head of Department @ International School of Turin, American Cultural Association