Miriam Broeks is a senior analyst at RAND Europe. Her research interests include education policy, social integration, and policy analysis and evaluation. She is involved in a variety of education research projects including the development of a survey for the OECD on Early Childhood Education and Care, as well as a number of projects sponsored by the Education Endowment Foundation involving randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in schools. Furthermore, she worked on evaluations focusing on improving health services in England such as the independent evaluation of the Flow Coaching Academy sponsored by the Health Foundation.
Prior to joining RAND she worked as research assistant at the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, researching European policies which aim to integrate minorities in schools. Previously, she interned at the London-based Intergenerational Foundation, working on expanding their intergenerational fairness index across European Union countries.
Broeks holds an M.Sc. in comparative social policy from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in human geography and sociology, with a minor in statistics, from Utrecht University.
Selected Publications
Miriam Broeks, "Explicando la diferencia estructural entre los programas de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en Ecuador y Guatemala: ¿Cómo incide la organización indígena?" Revista Némesis, 13, 2016
Paola Mattei and Miriam Broeks, "From Multiculturalism to Civic Integration: Citizenship Education and Integration Policies in the Netherlands and England since the 2000s," Ethnicities, 2016
Belanger, Julie and Miriam Broeks, Attracting and retaining teachers in Cambridgeshire: Working conditions and teacher flows from a School Workforce Census data perspective. , RAND Corporation, (RR-1850-CA), 2016
Alex Sutherland, Rob Prideaux, Julie Belanger, Miriam Broeks, Yulia Shenderovich and Simon Van Der Staaij, Motivating teachers with incentivised pay and coaching: Understanding factors influencing participant recruitment failure, RAND Corporation (RR-2145-EEF), 2017
Alex Sutherland, Miriam Broeks, et al., Evaluation report: Digital feedback in Primary Maths, Education Endowment Foundation, London (EP-), 2019
Miriam Broeks, Megan Sim, Agnes Stancel-Piątak & Juliane Hencke, TALIS Starting Strong Survey 2018 Analysis Principles, OECD, Paris (EP-), 2018
Miriam Broeks, Tom Ling, Sarah Ball, Joanna Hofman, Jack Pollard & Eleftheria Iakovidou, Independent evaluation of the Flow Coaching Academy programme, RAND Corporation (RR-3098-HF) (forthcoming)
