Greg Thompson is Associate Professor of Education Research at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, educational theory, education policy and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement, with a particular emphasis on large-scale testing. His recent research projects include reconceptualising test validity; commercialising public education; the topologies of global education policy and assessment, time and education policy and the impending impact of learning analytics/Big Data in schools.