Dr Susanne Wiborg
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Dr Susanne Wiborg is a Reader in Education at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. She holds a BA and MA from Copenhagen University and PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark.
Dr Wiborg’s research examines the comparative politics of education across Europe, with a particular focus on organised interests, the politics of education reforms, and educational institutions – and their consequences for schools and pupils.
She currently serves as the Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the research project: Admissions impossible: School Choice in European Cities, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (£1 million).
Her most recent books are Who Controls Education? The rising power of vested interests in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2025); The Comparative Politics of Education: Teacher Unions and Educations Systems Around the World, (with Terry M. Moe, Stanford University, Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Education and Social Integration: Comprehensive Schooling in Europe, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
Dr Wiborg’s work has been featured in the The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, BBC, Newsweek, and Prospect.