Dr. Helena Miller is the Director of Degrees, co-Head of teacher Training programmes, senior research fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies, and the director of the Jewish Lives Longitudinal Study, following the lives of young people in the UK. She oversaw the inspection of Jewish schools in the UK from 2004-2014. Helena has a doctorate in Jewish Education and has taught and written widely for many years. She has been involved in creating and supporting many Jewish education initiatives in the UK and overseas, notably JCoSS – the first cross communal Jewish secondary school in the UK. Helena is a past co-chair of Limmud International and is the 2012 recipient of the Max Fisher Prize for outstanding contribution to Jewish education in the Diaspora. She is the immediate past Senior Editor of the Journal of Jewish Education (2014-20). Three of her recent publications include the two volume  International Handbook of Jewish Education (Springer 2011), Secondary School Choice as a Window on Jewish Faith Schools in Contemporary British Society, with Alex Pomson & Hagit Hacohen Wolf (2016) Journal of School Choice 10:4., and Community Matters: a window into Jewish Lives (2019) Religious Education, Routledge. Helena’s original training and career was as an art teacher, and she still enjoys teaching about Jewish art whenever she is offered the opportunity.