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- Associate Professor
- IOE - Social Research Institute
- UCL Institute of Education
Associate Professor in the Social Research Institute.


Research interests include adult learning, higher education, lifecourse studies and the application of quantitative methods in educational research.
Current/recent projects:
- Why have universities transformed their staffing practices? Changing resource allocation and priorities in higher education.
Funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
- Where does the money come from and where does it go to? Understanding income and expenditure in the UK university system
Based on administrative data from HESA this research provides an analysis of income and expenditure trends and patterns in UK universities.
- Educational trajectories and wellbeing: a lifecourse perspective.
This project looked at the extent of participation in learning in mid-life and later life and its impact on wellbeing at age 50 and beyond using large-scale quantitative data from the 1958 British birth cohort (NCDS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).