Chairs of the Standing Conference on Studies in Education/Society for Educational Studies*
- 1951 Professor W. R. Niblett, University of Leeds
- 1956 Professor A. V. Judges, King’s College, London
- 1960 Professor R. Wilson, University of Bristol
- 1968 Professor J. W. Tibbie, Institute of Education, University of Leicester
- 1972 Vacant
- 1973 Professor J. R. Webster, University College of North Wales
- 1976 Professor W. A. L. Blyth, University of Liverpool
- 1979 Mr. K. B. Thompson, North Staffordshire Polytechnic
- 1982 Dr. T. R. Bone, Jordanhill College of Education
- 1985 Professor M. B. Sutherland, University of Leeds
- 1988 Professor G. Batho, University of Durham
- 1991 Professor P. Croll, University of Reading
- 1994 Professor G. Littler, University of Derby
- 1997 Professor K. L. Oglesby OBE, Manchester Metropolitan University
- 2000 Professor D. Lawton, Institute of Education, University of London
- 2003 Professor G. Nicholls, King’s College, University of London
- 2006 Professor J. H. Davison, Institute of Education, University of London
- 2016 Professor J. Arthur OBE, University of Birmingham
* The Standing Conference on Studies in Education was reconstituted as the Society for Educational Studies in 2002.