Sonia Exley joined the LSE Department of Social Policy in 2011. She is Programme Director for the MSc in International Social and Public Policy, and teaches on a range of postgraduate and undergraduate courses.

Sonia’s specialist area of research is education policy. She has a particular interest in the marketisation and privatisation of education systems across the world. 

Sonia has published in a wide range of education and social policy journals, including the Journal of Education Policy, Social Policy and Administration, Policy and Politics, the Oxford Review of Education, Comparative Education, the British Journal of Educational Studies, the Journal of Social Policy and the British and European Educational Research Journals. 

Sonia holds a DPhil in Social Policy from Oxford University (Nuffield College). Prior to joining LSE, she was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the (now UCL) Institute of Education in London.

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Sonia supervises doctoral studies in areas including:
Marketization and privatisation of education; social disadvantage and its relationship to education; education governance; history of social policy and administration.