Overview
My role involves conducting research to help shape our activities and embedding evaluation into all our projects. Taking an evidence-based and outcome led approach ensures that we are making a difference for young people, where it matters.
My passion is rooted in both my experience working in careers education and in education research. I love seeing young people and individuals from all backgrounds discover their passions and arming them with the tools needed to choose the right career path for them.
My PhD research was centred around the experiences that shape parents’ aspirations for their children in communities of low participation in higher education. It delved into the political and social language around notions of success and citizenship, and discourses of inclusion and exclusion and their impact on education outreach policies.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- PhD in Geographies of Families and Education (University of Reading)
- BA History (Kings College London)
Research
Research Interests and Projects
Research Interests: Widening Participation in Higher Education, Families and Aspiration, Social Capital and Social Reproduction, Education, Career Decision Making, Inequality, Evaluation.
Narratives of Inclusion and Exclusion, Parenting, Aspirations, Citizenship, Inequality.
Research Expertise: Parents' Aspirations for the Children: A Qualitative Study of Parent's and Community Workers in a Community of Low Participation in Higher Education.