Professor Chris Husbands is Professor of Education and Dean of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning.

His research interests are in secondary schooling, including policy on secondary education and classroom teaching and learning. He is currently co-directing the National Evaluation of Children's Trusts for the UK Department of Education and Skills, examining policy and implementation issues in relation to the integration of education and other children's services.

He taught history in secondary schools in the UK before moving into higher education. He has extensive experience in the management of education, and has been an adviser or consultant to a series of government bodies and departments. He supervises research students, and teaches on the School's highly successful Hong Kong PhD programme.

As well as being Dean of the School, he has a number of wider university responsibilities, including as Associate Dean for Research in Social Sciences, chair of the University Campus Suffolk curriculum group and chair of the University's group on rewarding and recognising good teaching.

Projects
The National Evaluation of Children's Trusts is a three year, DfES funded project which is examining the integration of education, children's social services and children's health Further details and links to publications are available on the Children's Trusts website

Values and Classroom Practice in History and Mathematics Teaching is a small exploratory study concerned with the ways in which values are embedded in everyday classroom practice, and how teacher's subject identity is related to their values orientations. We have chosen to look at two school subjects which are generally seen to be contrastive in terms of their values stance. Links to early papers from this project (Bills and Husbands, 2004 and forthcoming) are given below.

A Systematic Review of ITE Structures is being funded by the Teacher Training Agency and supported by the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI Centre) The review is seeking to answer the question "What evidence is there that the quality of ITE is influenced by its conceptual framework, organisational structure and management processes?" and expects to publish its first report early in 2005.