I’m a head teacher and history teacher with 25 years of experience in the UK and Middle East. I studied history at Oxford University and did a postgrad at the University of Edinburgh, then completed my headship qualifications at Stirling University. I’ve worked as an examiner for the SQA, Edexcel (Pearson) and the IBO Diploma Programme, and sit on working groups for the ISC (Diversity and Inclusion) and HMC (Professional Development Committee), and AI in Education (Strategy Panel). I chair the Executive Group of Principals in the Global Alliance of Innovative Education (GAIL), a group of eight schools across six continents who share groundbreaking practice and run conferences and initiatives for students.

I’m an author and have published books for Hachette, Learning Sciences International and Cambridge University Press (all titles are on my Amazon author page). I have published articles in both the education and national press. My next book is on children’s agency and will be published with Routledge in 2027.

I am an experienced content curator for education events and festivals. I was Content Director of the Telegraph Festival of Education, and organise researchED Scotland conferences. In Summer 2019 I launched EduMod at the Fringe, an international education festival, with Summerhouse Media. I worked with the New York Times at their Climate Hub for COP26, organising speakers, panels and themes on education for sustainable development.

I am a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA) and am a volunteer and former board member of the charity Beyond Srebrenica. Our work focuses on tackling prejudice and intolerance in society. For more information on our National Education Competition, please see this link.

If you want to connect with me I regularly use LinkedIn, and you can also reach me through the contact page on this website. You can subscribe to my Substack and I previously used X/Twitter at @robin_macp, but keep this open to connect with fellow educators around the world.

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Photography by Marina D’Ambrosio (Instagram okti_brina).