BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:513@ukfiet.org DTSTART:20230608T160000Z DTEND:20230608T190000Z DTSTAMP:20230517T095234Z URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/celebration-of-the-life-and-work-of-prof essor-roy-carr-hill/ SUMMARY:Celebration of the life and work of Professor Roy Carr-Hill DESCRIPTION:Professor Roy Carr-Hill sadly passed away on 21 November 2022. Roy was an esteemed serving colleague in the Department of Education\, Pol icy and Society (EPS) at UCL IoE.  Join this free in-person event to cele brate Roy's life and the launch of his most recent book.\nLocation: UCL IO E 20 Bedford Way Room 675\nThe Centre for Education and International Deve lopment (CEID) invites family\, colleagues\, students and friends to celeb rate Roy’s life and work\, including his latest book\, published posthum ously. His book 'Education Sector Plans and their Implementation in Develo ping Countries' will be of great interest to researchers\, scholars\, and postgraduate students in the fields of education and international develop ment\, comparative education\, and international education more broadly.\n Book synopsis (by Routledge) \nThis book examines the factors affecting th e successful implementation of Education Sector Plans in developing countr ies. It provides a detailed comparison that draws on data from 27 countrie s to offer careful research conclusions and policy recommendations.\nOffer ing a detailed comparison of the schooling situation (e.g. availability of potable water and toilets\, provision for the disabled) as well as educat ional outcomes (both test scores and percentages out-of-school) from the 2 7 countries using empirical evidence\, the book examines the resources tha t have been invested in different education sectors\, investigating the de velopment and success of each plan. The volume uses correlation analysis t o compare factors including the availability of government funding\, natio nal characteristics\, ministerial decisions\, influences of country and do nor stakeholders\, as well as district- and school-level issues. Thorough comparative analysis of the data is then demonstrated\, with two measures of achievements to identify which factors can be considered as the most im portant in order to reach realistic policy and research conclusions.\nTime ly and engaging\, this book will be of great interest to researchers\, sch olars\, and postgraduate students in the field of education and internatio nal development\, comparative education\, and international education more broadly.\nTribute to Roy \nRoy was a true polymath and a prolific academi c whose work spanned criminology\, statistics\, health\, education and soc ial services\; including important work on education in developing countri es and on the funding of the National Health Service in the UK. Roy was an avowed anarchist. As a statistician\, he paid great attention to the uses and abuses of statistics by governments\, especially the disguising of so cial problems as technical problems. He was a regular contributor to the h eterodox journal Radical Statistics. Much of his work served to shed light on inequalities and inequities in access to and outcomes of education and health\, focusing on the conditions of the least advantaged\, including p opulations neglected by surveys.\nBorn in Widnes in 1943\, Roy studied mat hematics as an undergraduate in Cambridge and Penology for his DPhil at Ox ford. He first taught at Sussex University\, followed by a stint as a rese archer for the OECD in Paris for their Social Indicators of Well-Being stu dy. Roy’s clear-thinking and outspoken views were not valued equally by all his employers and in 1978 he decided to take-up employment in Mozambiq ue\, at the time a Marxist-Leninist state. He taught statistics and educat ional planning at the Universdade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo.\nOn returnin g to the UK in 1981 Roy served at the Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen\, moving to the York Centre for Health Economics in 1984. His work in healt h includes studies in nutrition\, HIV and AIDS and many in other areas.\nN otable examples among these are his work on funding allocation for medical general practice in the UK and his trenchant criticism of the use of qual ity-adjusted life-years (QALY) as a metric for health funding decisions in the UK. The ‘Carr-Hill formula’ (or global sum allocation formula) wa s introduced in 2004 and remains in use in 2022. It is used to weight GP p ractice funding according to factors driving workloads including list turn over\, patient age\, sex and additional needs linked to illness and mortal ity as well as adjusting for regional cost-factors including variations in staff pay and the impact of rural location.\nRoy took up his post at UCL Institute of Education 1992. His work in education includes studies of adu lt literacy\, education among nomadic groups\, decentralisation and girls ’ education\, among many other topics. His work on ‘counting the uncou nted’ has gained particular attention in recent years in view of renewed global efforts to attain ‘universal’ access to education and skills d espite the poor quality of population data in many contexts. During the 19 90s and 2000’s\, Roy worked on several major African education reform pr ogrammes\, serving as a consultant to\, for example\, governments in Mozam bique\, Tanzania and Kenya.\nRoy was a most dedicated teacher on the MA pr ogrammes taught in the Centre for Education and International Development (CEID)\, working with students from a range of different backgrounds\, som etimes without detailed knowledge of statistics or planning. He was patien t\, and attentive\, walking alongside students and helping them develop an d enlarge their ideas. Roy was the statistician on the ESRC-funded NICK (N utritional Improvement for children living in urban Chile and Kenya) proje ct. At the time of his death\, he was working on the ESRC funded AGEE (Acc ountability for Gender Equality in Education) project\, engaging in partic ipatory discussions to generate a cross-national composite indicator that could assess work done\, and still to do on gender equality in education.\ nRoy’s work embodied his independence of thought\, clarity of mind\, com mitment to shining a light on inequality and injustice and his indefatigab le work ethic. He was a supportive\, critical and humorous colleague frien d and teacher.\nRoy is survived by his wife Angeles\, his four daughters\, seven grandchildren\, two brothers and their families. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ukfiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/0 5/Roy-Carr-Hill.jpg CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Celebration END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR