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Researcher

Emily Tanner

Researcher

Emily is a Research Director in the Children and Young People Team. She has over 10 years experience in education research spanning nursery age to early adulthood. Emily specializes in quantitative methods and impact evaluations and her work feeds directly into policy development at a central government level.

Emily is currently leading on the first strand for the Evaluation of Children's Centres in England and the quantitative analysis for the Evaluation of the South West Healthy Schools Plus programme. Other current projects include the Evaluation of the Free School Meals Pilots and work for the Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change (both for DfE). Emily reported recently on the Evaluation of Every Child a Reader which found positive impacts of an intensive reading intervention on children in Key Stage 1 (read Emily's blog on the matter here).

Before joining NatCen, Emily held research posts at Yale University and at Oxford, where she also completed a DPhil in social policy.

Research Publications

Tanner, E., Brown, A., Day, N., Kotecha, M., Low, N., Morrell, G., Turczuk, O., Brown, V., Collingwood, A., Chowdry, H., Greaves, E., Harrison, C., Johnson, G., Purdon, S.  Evaluation of Every Child a Reader. DfE-RR114 (2011).

Lloyd C, Brown V, Tanner E, Hales J, Tennant R. Feasibility study for a quantitative survey: How activity at 16-18 impacts on future pathways DfE-RR035 (2010).

Tanner E., D'Souza J., Taylor E., Finch S., Purdon S, and Maguire M. Activity Agreements Pilot 1: Follow-up Survey DfE-RR010 (2010).

Maylor, U., et al. The impact of supplementary schools on pupils' attainment: An investigation into what factors contribute to educational improvements. DCSF-RR210 (2010).

Tanner E, Ireson J, Day N, Rushforth K, Smith K, Tennant R, Turczuk O, Private Tuition in England DCSF-RR081(2009).

Tanner E, Purdon S, D'Souza J, Finch S, Evaluation of Activity Agreement Pilots: Report of the Quantitative Evaluation DCSF-RR096 (2009).

Hillage J, Johnson C, Newton B, Maguire S, Tanner E, Purdon S, Activity Agreements Evaluation: Synthesis Report DCSF-RR063 (2008).

Coldron J, Tanner, E, Finch S, Shipton L, Wolsthenholme C, Willis B, Demack S, Stiell B, Study of Secondary School Admissions DCSF-RR020 (2008).

Older Publications

Magadi M, Chzhen Y, Pound E, Harvey J, Tanner E, Butt S, Michaelson J, Finch S, Evaluation of the Adult Learning Grant Cohort 2 Wave 2, DfES and Learning and Skills Council (2007).

Snape D, Tanner E, Sinclair R, Finch S, National Adult Learning Survey (NALS) 2005, DfES-RR2006).

Smith, T. & Lee, C. with Braswell, S., Coxon, K., Smith, G., Sylva, K. & Tanner, E. (2005) Early Stages of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative: Opening the Nurseries. DfES, Sure Start Unit.

Tanner, E. M., Welsh, E. & Lewis, J. (2005) The quality-defining process in early years services: A case study. Children & Society

Tanner, E. M. (2004) The costs of education: Parents' contributions to 'free' state schooling. Education Law Journal, 5(3):161-167.

Tanner, E. M., Bennett, F., Churchill, H., Ferres, G. & Tanner, S. (2003) The Costs of Education: A Local Study. Poverty Publication 108. London: CPAG.

Tanner, E. M. & Finn-Stevenson, M. (2003) Nutrition and Health. In Zigler, E., Finn-Stevenson, M. & Hall, N. W. (Eds). The First Three Years and Beyond: Brain Development and Social Policy. Yale University Press.

Tanner, E. M. & Finn-Stevenson, M. (2002) Nutrition and Early Brain Development: Social Policy Implications. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72(2).

Zigler, E., Finn-Stevenson, M. & Tanner, E. M. (2002) National Policies for Children, Adolescents, and Families. In Lewis, M. (Ed). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook. 3rd Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers.

Armbruster, P., Chock, U., Tanner, E. M. & Holmes, S. (2002) Parent Work. In Lewis, M. (Ed). In Lewis, M. (Ed). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook. 3rd Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers.

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