My background is in geography education: I was a geography teacher in East London, then as an educator at UCL Institute of Education, developing both initial and continuing teacher education programmes, and focusing my research interest on the importance of subject identity for teacher professional practice. Until recently I was both Head of Department, Curriculum Pedagogy and Assessment, and Head of Initial Teacher Education, and this has extended my work into initial teacher education where I am currently exploring dimensions of quality along with scale. I am still active in the geography education community, acting as Co-Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission for Geography Education, and editor of their book series, and Chair for the UK-based Geography Education Research Collective.

I have undertaken a range of consultancy-based work around ITE (nationally and internationally), and I am the Director of the research Centre on Teacher and Early Years education. I am currently on a one-year sabbatical where I am undertaking an international research project looking at high quality initial teacher education at scale, which will be published in a research monograph for Routledge.

Personal country knowledge

• China
• Singapore
  

Languages spoken

• French - basic