Loic is a researcher and policy specialist. He is currently researching and writing his second book 'How Policy Happens: Understanding the decisions that shape our education system'. His first edited collection "Young People on the Margins' was published by Routledge in 2021. Loic was previously CEO of the 'think and action-tank' The Centre for Education and Youth and is now a Visiting Fellow at Sheffield Institute of Education and a Senior Research Fellow in the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge. Prior to moving into policy and research he was a teacher, youth worker and Tutor for Canterbury Christ Church University's Faculty of Education.