Martin Brown, is Head of the School of Policy and Practice and co-director at EQI – The Centre for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection at DCU, Institute of Education, Ireland. He is an advisor to the Teaching Council of Ireland, expert evaluator and rapporteur for the European Commission and an elected member of the Centre for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is a member of the editorial board of Springer Nature Humanities & Social Sciences and Educational Research and Evaluation.

He is a specialist in educational evaluation and comparative education studies and has planned and led evaluations in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Europe, and the Middle East, working for, among others, the European Commission, the Department of Education and Skills (Ireland), the State Education Development Agency (Latvia), and the United Arab Emirates government. More recently, he was appointed to the academic advisory group for the end-to-end review of Northern Ireland’s Education system.

He has received two all-Island – Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCOTENS Awards) for outstanding research in Teacher Education North and South and has also received the President of DCU Gold medal awards for Research Impact, Teaching and Learning, and Civic Engagement.