Three UCL academics named British Science Association ’Section Presidents’

Three UCL academics have been announced by the British Science Association (BSA) as Scientific Section Presidents for 2018. The new elected section presidents are Professor Louise Archer (UCL Institute of Education), President of the Sociology and Social Sciences section, Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics and Astronomy), President of the Physics and Astronomy section and Dr Andrew Morris (UCL Institute of Education), President of the Education section. They are among 17 new section heads that were this week announced by the BSA. Professor Louise Archer is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at UCL IOE. Her research focuses on educational identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, ethnicity and social class. She is the Principle Investigator of a number of large national projects, including the ten year ESRC funded Aspires / Aspires2 study (a mixed-method longitudinal tracking of students' science and career aspirations from ages 10-18). Professor Jon Butterworth is a professor of physics working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.