About

Martin Culliney joined SIOE in March 2016. He mainly works with quantitative data but also has significant experience from qualitative and mixed method studies. His substantive interests include employment, education, young people, rural labour markets and social capital and his academic work encompasses all of these areas. 

Martin gained his PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2013. His thesis compares the labour market prospects for young people in rural and urban areas of Britain using a mixed method design. 

In Martin's previous role at the University of Lincoln he acted as the interim leader of the BA Sociology programme, was responsible for curriculum design and coordinated several undergraduate modules. He has taught extensively at both Lincoln and Birmingham, covering a wide range of topics in research methods and social theory. 

Martin has been lead author on reports for Defra and ACAS and contributed to evaluations of the Youth Contract, the Work Programme and Raising the Participation Age Phase 4. He has worked on projects commissioned by a variety of clients such as The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Calderdale District Council and The World Bank/Russian Finance Ministry. 

Martin is currently involved in SIOE projects for the Education Endowment Foundation, DfE and GEO, leading on survey design, data management and analysis.

Work experience
Research Fellow: Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, March 2016-
Research Fellow/Lecturer: University of Lincoln, September 2013-March 2016
Research Officer: Institute for Employment Studies, December 2012-August 2013
ESRC Research Intern: Office of the Sentencing Council, March-June 2012
Graduate teaching assistant: University of Birmingham, 2008-12

Education
PhD, Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham, 2013
MA, Social Research (distinction), University of Birmingham, 2009
BA, Media, Culture and Society (first class honours), University of Birmingham, 2007

Teaching

Sheffield Institute of Education

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Courses

I contribute to the Doctorate in Education course through delivering sessions on Research Methods

Research

• Centre for Development and Research in Education
• Social and Economic Research Institute

• Scale-up campaigns: Improving the impact of teaching assistants (EEF 2015-8) 
• International teacher recruitment study (DfE 2016-7) 
• Anti-HBT bullying evaluation (GEO 2016-2019) 
• Integrating English: Randomised Controlled Trial (EEF 2016-2019) 
• Realistic Maths: Randomised Controlled Trial (EEF 2017-2020)

Featured Projects

Integrating English into the Curriculum (Education Endowment Foundation, 2016-9)
International teacher recruitment: understanding the attitudes and experiences of school leaders and teachers (Department for Education, 2016-7)
Evaluation of the Government's anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools programme (Government Equalities Office, 2016-9)
Evaluation of the Realistic Maths Education programme (Education Endowment Foundation, 2017-)
Evaluation of the REACH Primary programme (Education Endowment Foundation, 2018-)
Evaluation of DARE 25: an early intervention programme to prevent youth crime (Youth Endowment Fund, 2019-)

• Department for Education 
• Government Equalities Office 
• Education Endowment Foundation

Publications

Postgraduate supervision

I have supervised one doctoral student to completion, (Edward Noon, viva passed in March 2021).