Sotiria Grek

Sotiria Grek is Professor of Science, Knowledge and Public Policy at Urban Studies and Social Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Sotiria’s work focuses on the fields of quantification and expertise in global public policy, with a specialisation in the policy arenas of education and sustainable development. She has received funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), as well as from the Swedish Research Council. In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to examine “International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field” (METRO, 2017-2022). She is also the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant, which focuses on ‘Art and Policy in the Global Contemporary: Examining the Role of the Arts in the Production of Public Policy’ (POLART, 2024-2029).

She has co-authored (with Martin Lawn) Europeanising Education: Governing A New Policy Space (Symposium, 2012) and co-edited (with Joakim Lindgren) Governing by Inspection (Routledge, 2015), as well as the World Yearbook in Education: Accountability and Datafication in Education (with Christian Maroy and Antoni Verger; Routledge, 2021). Her most recent books (with Justyna Bandola-Gill and Marlee Tichenor) are Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Public Policy (Springer, 2022) and her monograph The New Production of Expert Knowledge: Education, Quantification and Utopia (Palgrave, 2024).

At her previous post at the University of Edinburgh, she has had the roles of Co-director of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE); SPS Deputy Director of Research (Ethics lead); and SPS Co-Director of Research. She has taught and supervised throughout her career, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Finally, she has extensive experience of science/ policy advocacy, having worked as an expert with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre on science/ policy ecosystems. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the RSE Social Sciences Research Panel Chair.