Dr Karen Rogers is Director of Research at GERRIC. She is author of OMNIBUS, an enrichment program for primary students, currently operating in 22 US states and has co-authored and produced 10 half hour television programs on giftedness entitled "One Step Ahead".

In 1991 she completed, for the National Research Center on the Gifted, The Relationship of Grouping Practices to the Education of the Gifted and Talented Learner: Research-based decision making, and evaluative synthesis of hundreds of research studies on the effects of ability and achievement grouping.

In 1992 she was honoured with the Early Scholar Award of the American National Association for Gifted Children.

Karen is one of the world's leading authorities on the development of differentiated curriculum for gifted and talented students. She has worked extensively with schools on the development of programs of identification, curriculum differentiation and evaluation in gifted education.

Karen is the author of Re-Forming Gifted Education: How parents and teachers can match the program to the child which has been widely acclaimed in the US.