Professor Carol Campbell
Head of School and Personal Chair of Education
Background
Professor Carol Campbell holds a Personal Chair of Education and is Head of School at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. Carol’s work concerns: large-scale educational change, education system and school improvement, and the development and work of the education profession, including career-long teacher education, professional learning, and leadership development.
Carol is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow and Cardiff Metropolitan University, and a Professor (status-only appointment) at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the International Council of Education Advisors for the Scottish Government’s First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills. During 2022-2023, Carol served as an independent facilitator for the National Discussion on the future vision for education in Scotland.
Carol’s academic positions include Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow, Professor of Leadership and Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), Stanford University, USA, and a faculty member at the Institute of Education, University of London (now UCL). She held progressively senior leadership positions in the Ontario Ministry of Education in Canada, including becoming Ontario’s first Chief Research Officer for education and founding Director of the Education Research, Evaluation and Strategy Branch. In 2020, Carol received the Canadian Teachers’ Federation Public Education Advocacy award for dedicated, long-standing service, as well as major contributions to education. She completed her PhD at the University of Strathclyde.
Research summary
Professor Carol Campbell holds a Personal Chair of Education and is Head of School/Dean of Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. Carol’s work concerns: large-scale educational change, education system and school improvement, and the development and work of the education profession, including career-long teacher education, professional learning, and leadership development.