Sally Tomlinson has held chairs in education research and policy at the Universities of Lancaster, Wales (Swansea) and Goldsmiths College London, where she was also Dean of Education and a Pro-warden of the College. She has researched and published over the past 25 years in the areas of special education, the education of minorities, school effectiveness, home-school relations and general education policy. She is currently Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths College and a Research Associate in the Department of Education Studies, University of Oxford.