Michael Fielding is Emeritus Professor of Education at UCL’s Institute of Education. He was a secondary school teacher for more than two decades, focused on practising radical democratic education. He was deputy head teacher (1984–89) of Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes, a leading progressive comprehensive secondary school, then taught at the universities of Cambridge, Sussex and the Institute of Education. Michael is one of the key writers in the field of student voice, leading innovative research in school improvement, educational leadership and radical education.