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Martin Culliney

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Dr Martin Culliney BA, MA, PhD

Senior Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Fellow

Summary

I joined SIOE in March 2016. I mainly work with quantitative data but also have substantial experience from qualitative and mixed method studies. My research interests include employment, education, young people, rural labour markets and social capital and my academic work encompasses all of these areas. I am Principal Investigator on three externally funded evaluations.

Martin Culliney

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. This included longitudinal analysis of the British Household Panel Survey. 

After completing his doctoral research Martin worked at the Institute for Employment Studies. He then moved to the University of Lincoln where he acted as the interim leader of the BA Sociology programme, with responsibility for curriculum design and coordinating 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, ACAS and the Youth Endowment Fund and has also worked on projects commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Department for Education, and the Government Equalities Office. He is the Principal Investigator on three large randomised controlled trials funded by the Education Endowment Foundation.

Work experience
Senior Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Fellow/Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Fellow: Sheffield Institute of Education, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, March 2016-
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Fellow/Lecturer: University of Lincoln, September 2013-March 2016
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Officer: Institute for Employment Studies, December 2012-August 2013
ESRC Ï㽶ÊÓƵ 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 Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (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 Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Methods

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    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)
    REACH Primary Evaluation: Randomised Controlled Trial (EEF 2019-2022)
    DARE 25 Evaluation: Randomised Controlled Trial (Youth Endowment Fund 2019-2022)
    English Mastery: Randomised Controlled Trial (EEF 2021-2026)
    Infant Language Link: Randomised Controlled Trial (EEF 2022-2025)
    Counting Collections: Randomised Controlled Trial (EEF 2022-2025)

Featured Projects

Integrating English into the Curriculum (Education Endowment Foundation, 2016-9)
Evaluation of the REACH Primary programme (Education Endowment Foundation, 2018-)

Evaluation of English Mastery
Infant Language Link
Counting Collections

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

Publications

Journal articles

Culliney, M. (2020). . Journal of Education and Work.

Culliney, M. (2017). . Work, Employment and Society, 31 (3), 429-446.

Key, W., & Culliney, M. (2016). . Social Policy and Society, 17 (1), 47-63.

Culliney, M. (2014). The rural pay penalty: youth earnings and social capital in Britain. Journal of Youth Studies, 17 (2), 148-165.

Culliney, M. (2014). Going nowhere? Rural youth labour market opportunities and obstacles. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 22 (1), 45-57.

Reports

Culliney, M., & Demack, S. (2023). Improving Power Calculations in Educational Trials. Education Endowment Foundation.

Formby, E., Wolstenholme, C., Culliney, M., & Demack, S. (2022). The evaluation of the government’s anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools programme. Government Equalities Office.

Culliney, M., Demack, S., Boylan, M., & Wolstenholme, C. (2022). . Education Endowment Foundation.

Culliney, M., Willis, B., Formby, E., Demack, S., & Clark, L. (2022). . Youth Endowment Fund.

Culliney, M., Daniels, K., Booth, J., Coldwell, M., & Demack, S. (2021). REACH Primary Evaluation Report. Education Endowment Foundation.

Culliney, M., Moore, N., Coldwell, M., & Demack, S. (2019). . Education Endowment Foundation.

Demack, S., Reaney-Wood, S., Adams, G., Stiell, B., & Culliney, M. (2019). Number of A levels taken and subject combinations: An analysis of NPD data for A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics (2013, 2015 & 2017).

Maxwell, B., Coldwell, M., Willis, B., & Culliney, M. (2019). . Educational Endowment Foundation.

Maxwell, B., Willis, B., Culliney, M., Coldwell, M., Demack, S., Goepel, J., & Stevens, A. (2019). . Education Endowment Foundation.

Maxwell, B., Willis, B., Culliney, M., Coldwell, M., & Reaney, S. (2019). . Education Endowment Foundation.

Demack, S., Reaney-Wood, S., Adams, G., Stiell, B., & Culliney, M. (2019). Participation and Attainment in A level Mathematics & FurtherMathematics.

Formby, E., Culliney, M., Demack, S., & Wolstenholme, C. (2018). The evaluation of the government’s anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools programme: Baseline report.

Stiell, B., Willis, B., Culliney, M., & Coldwell, M. (2018). . London: Department for Education.

Maxwell, B., Clague, L., Byrne, E., Culliney, M., Coldwell, M., Hobson, A., & Glentworth, A. (2018). . https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk: Education Endowment Foundation.

Wolstenholme, C., Willis, B., & Culliney, M. (2016). . Sheffield: Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.

Culliney, M. (2013). An assessment of the degree to which rural businesses access national mainstream employer skills and government business support programmes: Evidence Report. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Culliney, M. (2013). Young people’s views and experiences on entering the workplace. ACAS.

Theses / Dissertations

Noon, E.J. (2021). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Merchant, G., Stirling, E., & Culliney, M.

Presentations

Culliney, M., Moore, N., Demack, S., & Coldwell, M. (2019). Integrating English into the Curriculum: Evaluating an Intervention Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presented at: 2019 European Conference on Educational Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (ECER), Universität Hamburg, Germany, 2019

Other activities

International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education - Editorial Advisory Board

Postgraduate supervision

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

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