Teaching, Occupational and Further Education: Pedagogy, Identities and Knowledge

Sai Loo is an academic at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, and an author and editor of research monographs. Before joining UCL, he taught accounting and finance at higher education institutions in undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional programmes and vocational areas in further education. Before becoming a teacher, he worked as a chartered accountant in the industry. He created occupational education as a new area of education and is his main area of expertise and research interest. He takes an interdisciplinary approach to vocationally oriented education of work, teaching, and learning settings. His research projects and publications have focused on the further and higher education sectors and professional education, especially around teacher education (teacher educators and teachers) and professional practices in work-related settings of the digital economy and clinical disciplines. He has published widely in over 160 publications, conference papers, and keynotes.