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Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education and Policy at King’s College London. Her research focuses on teachers' lives and work, with particular attention to social class, race, gender, and age in teachers' professional experiences. She has led funded studies on the experiences of trainee teachers, post-compulsory transitions, and multi-agency policy approaches to educational challenges in urban primary schools.

Meg collaborated with Stephen Ball and Annette Braun on research into how schools enact policy. She also contributed to the Young Lives, Young Futures project, a major six-year study led by researchers at King's College London and The Edge Foundation, examining how support can be improved for the 50% of young people in England who do not attend university. Her current research explores social class in the lives of older teachers.

Before joining King's College London, Meg was a primary school teacher with the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and later worked at St Mary's University. Teaching children and adults has remained central to her professional practice throughout her career.