Ricardo Sabates is a Reader in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and member of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre.  His research relates primarily to questions of equity in educational access and learning in sub-Saharan Africa and on second chance opportunities for drop-out children particularly in Ethiopia and Ghana. He is currently the co-investigator of a number of research projects within the REAL Centre including secondary education in Africa and has undertaken a number of quantitative projects in education including evaluations of policy reforms.