School of Social and Political Science

Background

Jenny Ozga, Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education, the University of Oxford, having been Professor of the Sociology of Education there from 2010-2015. Before that she was Director of the Centre for Educational Sociology (CES), University of Edinburgh, and has also worked at Strathclyde, Keele, UWE Bristol, and the Open University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. 

Jenny’s most recent funded research, in collaboration with colleagues at Oxford and UWS, was an inter-UK comparative study of examinations policy during the Covid-19 pandemic, and she is continuing to work on policy for education recovery after Covid, exploring the knowledge base of recovery planning. She is also currently writing a book based on her Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, on Governing Education: knowledge and policy in England and Scotland since 1986. Jenny works in collaboration with colleagues in the UK and Europe, located in a variety of disciplines-including political science and social policy. 

Recent publications

Journal articles

Ozga, Jenny, Jo-Anne Baird, Luke Saville, Margaret Arnott & Niclas Hell (2023) Knowledge, expertise and policy in the examinations crisis in England, Oxford Review of Education. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2022.2158071.

Ozga, Jenny (2021) Problematising policy: the development of (critical) policy sociology, Critical Studies in Education, 62:3, 290-305. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2019.1697718.

Ozga, Jenny (2021) Who governs? Political leadership in transnational times, School Leadership & Management, 41:1-2, 6-21. DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2020.1789857.

Ozga, Jenny (2020) The politics of accountability. Journal of Educational Change 21, 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-019-09354-2.

Ozga, Jenny, & Arnott, M. A. (2019). Governando para além do PISA: conhecimento, redes e narrativas. [Governing Beyond PISA: knowledge, networks and narratives] Roteiro, 44(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.18593/r.v44i3.21004.

Chapters

Ozga, Jenny (2020) Elites and Expertise: The Changing Material Production of Knowledge for Policy in Fan, Guorui and Popkewitz, Thomas (Eds.) Handbook of Education Policy Studies volume 1 Values, Governance, Globalization, and Methodology (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811383465)

Ozga, J (2019) ‘Governing and Knowledge: Theorising the Relationship’ in Langer, R and Brusemeister, T Handbuch Educational Governance Theorien Springer