About

Since joining Sheffield Hallam in 2024, I’ve been part of a team which bids for and delivers commissioned evaluation and research projects, broadly in the areas of education and youth. The primary focus of my role is project management and implementation and process evaluation (IPE). Projects include Youth Endowment Foundation funded randomised control trials including 'Positive Pathways' and 'Roots of Empathy: Nurturing Empathy Before Transition'.

My research interests centre on educational inequalities, particularly focusing on access to higher education. As part of this, I am interested in critically analysing widening participation policy and (higher) education policy more broadly, and how intersections of class, gender and race shape educational experiences and student identities. This academic focus builds on my previous experience in widening participation roles across several HE institutions, where I provided insights to inform policy and practice through evaluation, research, and data analysis.

My methodological interests include theory-based evaluation approaches, integrated mixed methods designs, and feminist and narrative methods. Additionally, I'm interested in understanding how research evidence influences policy and practice, and how different actors interpret and enact policy. Before joining Sheffield Hallam, I worked on an evaluation of the ESRC Policy Fellowships scheme with Professor Matthew Flinders at the University of Sheffield.

My doctoral research project, grounded in the sociology of education, explores how young women from white, working-class families narrate their journeys to becoming university students. My study is theoretically framed by Michel Foucault’s ideas, especially as developed by feminist poststructuralist scholars. 

Teaching

Sheffield Institute of Education

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Research

• Social and Economic Research Institute

Publications