I am currently a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Mapping Interventions for NEET young people in England (MINE). I work alongside Professor Lisa Russell (PI) at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Dr Jo Bishop and Dr Ron Thompson (CO-I) at the University of Huddersfield. 

The MINE project offers the first national-level analysis of early intervention programmes in England for young people aged 14-16 considered vulnerable to becoming Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET).  We are recording  both short and longer term outcomes for young people to explore the factors that make particular interventions effective. Additionally, we are foregrounding the voices of young people accessing provision using a longitudinal ethnographic approach. This will provide an understanding of how their experiences of early interventions connect with previous school experience and later experiences of education and the labour market.

I have supervised doctoral students working in the following areas:

Securitisation of Education and Teacher Professional identity: Muslim Teachers in England.

The ‘Messiness’ of Managing the Behaviour of L2 Learners in Sixth Form Education