Professor Mary Richardson

Mary Richardson is Professor of Educational Assessment at the IOE: UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. She is currently the leader of the EdD Professional Doctorate programme and a tutor on the MA Educational Assessment. Her doctoral candidates focus on a wide range of topics related to assessment including: social media representation, ethics and anxiety in testing, and comparative judgement, to name just a few. Mary's own research is anchored in assessment with specialist expertise in student experiences, public understanding of testing, the ethics of assessment and currently, what AI might mean to all our assessment futures. She sits on the Research Board for Qualifications Wales, for AQA Exam Board's Research Department and is the co-convenor of the British Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group (SIG) for Curriculum and Assessment. When she is not thinking about assessment, Mary is a keen middle distance runner and passionate about northern soul music