Gary McCulloch is a researcher and teacher on educational issues at the Institute of Education, University of London.  He is a leading historian of education and the Brian Simon Professor in the history of education at the Institute.  He has national and international experience of researching educational issues including the school curriculum and secondary education. 

His previous books cover a wide range of areas including school science and technology, technical schools, public schools, secondary modern schools, teachers and the National Curriculum, social change, educational reconstruction, veteran teachers, and learners and learning.  He is a former Editor of the International Journal History of Education and a former president of the History of Education Society (UK), and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

His most recent research is on the school leaving and participation age and his current research project for which he gained the 2011 National Award from the Society for educational Studies is on the social organisation of educational studies.