Lorraine is a Research Associate at the ERC, specialising in the analysis of complex large scale survey data. She is currently working on the analysis of Irish data from the 2016 cycle of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). She has previously worked on the administration and analysis of the National Assessments of Reading and Mathematics, the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS, 2009) and the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS, 2009). She is interested in the home and school characteristics associated with student achievement and the extent to which schools in Ireland are differentially effective. She joined the Centre in 2007 and between 2011 and 2014, spent time working as a Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University. Lorraine has a B.A. (Mod), Higher Diploma in Statistics and Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin, as well as a Masters in Psychology from Liverpool Hope University.