Dr Markus Klein
Reader
Education
Personal statement
Markus Klein is a Reader in Human Development and Education Policy and the Director of Research in the Strathclyde Institute of Education. He has been a member of the Institute since January 2016.
Prior to this, he served as a research fellow for the ESRC-funded Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) at the University of Edinburgh (2013-2015) and earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Mannheim in 2013.
His research examines the formation of socioeconomic inequalities at various stages of the life course by employing quantitative methods and secondary data analysis.
Recently, he has taken a keen interest in the socioeconomic causes and effects of school absences. He was the PI of the ESRC SDAI project 'Family background and educational attainment: An investigation into the mediating role of school absenteeism' and is the PI of the project 'Understanding school attendance, education, and labour market outcomes' funded by the Nuffield Foundation. For more information on these projects see: schoolattendance.org.
His work has appeared in numerous sociology and education journals, including Sociological Science, Child Development, European Sociological Review, AERA Open, and the British Educational Research Journal.
Dr Klein is a Life Course Research Affiliate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course at the University of Queensland. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the BSA journal Sociology.
Dr Klein supervises research in the areas of child development, school attendance, educational inequality, social mobility, education policy, educational returns, and comparative studies.
More information on his research can be found on his personal webpage.
Prize And Awards
Publications
- Understanding School Attendance, Educational Attainment, and Labour Market Outcomes
- Klein Markus, Sosu Edward, Dräger Jascha, Perinetti Casoni Valentina
- (2024)
- Trajectories of school absences across compulsory schooling and their impact on children's academic achievement : an analysis based on linked longitudinal survey and school administrative data
- Dräger Jascha, Klein Markus, Sosu Edward M
- PLOS One Vol 19 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306716
- The long-term consequences of early school absences for educational attainment and labour market outcomes
- Dräger Jascha, Klein Markus, Sosu Edward
- British Educational Research Journal Vol 50, pp. 1636-1654 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3992
- The harmful effects of absences stretch beyond school
- Klein Markus, Sosu Edward
- (2024)
- Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?
- Dräger Jascha, Klein Markus, Sosu Edward
- (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/nwzqh
- School absences, academic achievement, and adolescents' post-school destinations
- Klein Markus, Sosu Edward
- Oxford Review of Education (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2308520
Professional Activities
- OECD Peer-learning discussion I – Monitoring of school attendance problems and early leaving from education and training
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 26/9/2024
- CQIS Attendance Conference , South Lanarkshire Council
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 24/9/2024
- Promoting School Attendance: Questions for Research, Policy, and Practice
- Host
- 20/9/2024
- Interview in radio show 'Toronto Today with Greg Brady' (640 Toronto)
- Interviewee
- 9/2024
- Symposium: Understanding the multifaceted impact of pupil absences on academic achievement: Timing, trajectories, psychosocial pathways and sociodemographic differences, BPS Psychology of Education Annual Conference
- Organiser
- 9/2024
- The short- and long-term consequences of school absences
- Invited speaker
- 9/2024
Projects
- Housing inequalities and child wellbeing: how does growing up in rented accommodation affect health, wellbeing and cognitive development of children in Scotland?
- Fiori, Francesca (Academic) Henderson, Marion (Academic) Klein, Markus (Academic)
- ESRC - SGSSS Steers - Datasets (Grant Ref: ES/Y001699/1)
- 01-Oct-2024 - 31-Mar-2028
- Family socioeconomic status and school absenteeism – The role of behavioural and psychosocial dispositions
- Sosu, Edward (Principal Investigator) Klein, Markus (Co-investigator) Marta, Samara (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 30-Sep-2026
- Is school absenteeism harmful to education and labour market outcomes?
- Klein, Markus (Principal Investigator) Sosu, Edward (Co-investigator)
- 01-May-2022 - 30-Sep-2024
- Proposal for Process and Impact Evaluation of the East Lothian Tutoring Initiative (ELTI)
- Sosu, Edward (Principal Investigator) Cassidy, Claire (Co-investigator) Kennedy, Aileen (Co-investigator) Klein, Markus (Co-investigator)
- 06-Jan-2021 - 30-Sep-2021
- Family background and educational attainment: An investigation into the mediating role of school absenteeism
- Klein, Markus (Principal Investigator) Sosu, Edward (Co-investigator)
- Family background and educational attainment: An investigation into the mediating and moderating role of school absenteeism
- 01-Jun-2018 - 31-Mar-2023
- Nurturing School Ethos to Improve Educational Attainment
- Cassidy, Claire (Principal Investigator) Holmes, Joanna (Co-investigator) Klein, Markus (Co-investigator) Sosu, Edward (Co-investigator)
- 01-Aug-2017 - 31-Mar-2019