Dr. Hannah Ulferts

Policy Analyst, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Hannah is a policy analyst at the OECD leading the work on one of the 2022 initial reports of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Previously, she was an interim lead of the OECD’s Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) as well as an analyst of the Teacher Knowledge Survey (TKS) and the New Professionalism and the Future of Teaching project. Before joining the OECD, Hannah worked in Germany as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Free University in Berlin as well as a researcher at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Potsdam. She was involved in two European projects as well as two evaluation studies and a survey in Germany and conducted several secondary analysis and meta-studies. Hannah has a doctoral degree in psychology from the Free University in Berlin. She has published on various topics such as teacher knowledge and general pedagogical knowledge, job roles and personality development, parenting styles, reading motivation and competences as well as quality, quantity and effectiveness of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Her work spans a broad range of methodological approaches, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, (secondary) analysis of international, longitudinal and cross‑sectional studies using assessments as well as questionnaires.