Rebecca Allen is Chief Analyst and a co-founder of Teacher Tapp, the largest teacher survey in the UK. She is also Professor of Education at the University of Brighton. Until 2018, she was Professor of Education at UCL Institute of Education and over her academic career she has written extensively on school accountability, admissions, assessment, expenditure and teacher careers. In 2018, she chaired a Government working group to review how data is used in schools. Her book with Sam Sims on teacher careers called ‘The Teacher Gap’ was published in 2018.