Registered charity · West Midlands
The Society for Educational Studies
- 13 trustees
- Income £193k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Aidan ThompsonTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Gurpinder Singh LalliTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Lottie HoareTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Richard RaceTrustee · since 2020
- Dr Sally PowerTrustee · since 2023
- Professor Andrew PetersonTrustee · since 2011
- Professor Gaynor Mary AttwoodTrustee · since 2001
- Professor Hazel BryanTrustee · since 2020
- Professor James Arthur OBETrustee · since 2008
- Professor James ConroyTrustee · since 2025
- Professor John HaldaneTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Stephen ParkerTrustee · since 2021
- Professor TOM HarrisonTrustee · since 2017
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
- Website
- www.soc-for-ed-studies.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1970
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£193k£242k
- 2024£195k£260k
- 2023£189k£189k
Earlier years
- 2022£184k£71k
- 2021£183k£47k
Charitable objects
TO DISCUSS AND PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATION AND TO ACT AS SPONSOR TO THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES.
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
13 trustees on the board
- Dr Aidan Thompson since 2025
- Dr Gurpinder Singh Lalli since 2023
- Dr Lottie Hoare since 2022
- Dr Richard Race since 2020
- Dr Sally Power since 2023
- Professor Andrew Peterson since 2011
- Professor Gaynor Mary Attwood since 2001
- Professor James Arthur OBE since 2008
- Professor Hazel Bryan since 2020
- Professor James Conroy since 2025
- Professor John Haldane since 2024
- Professor Stephen Parker since 2021
- Professor TOM Harrison since 2017
7.5y median 5y
average tenure
25y
longest tenure
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Andrew Peterson since 2011
- Professor Gaynor Mary Attwood since 2001
- Professor James Arthur OBE since 2008
- Professor TOM Harrison since 2017
9y
average years in governance
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Dr Aidan Thompson since 2025
- Dr Gurpinder Singh Lalli since 2023
- Dr Lottie Hoare since 2022
- Dr Richard Race since 2020
- Professor Andrew Peterson since 2011
- Professor Gaynor Mary Attwood since 2001
- Professor James Arthur OBE since 2008
- Professor Hazel Bryan since 2020
- Professor James Conroy since 2025
- Professor John Haldane since 2024
- Professor Stephen Parker since 2021
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Sally Power since 2023
- Professor TOM Harrison since 2017
2
company-linked trustees
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Education 4Other services 1
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
incomespending£193k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 313861
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION, AS AMENDED 26TH JANUARY 1979
- Contact on the register
- 07956526485 · soc.for.ed.studies@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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