I am currently Pro-Director for Education, at UCL Institute of Education, a role which gives me oversight of the strategic development of Education across the IOE’s portfolio. Until recently I was both Head of Department, Curriculum Pedagogy and Assessment, and Head of Initial Teacher Education, and alongside these leadership roles, I have developed research interests into the quality and development of teacher education particularly when enacted at scale.

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. 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. My latest research has been focused around an international research project looking at high quality initial teacher education at scale, which will be published in a research monograph for Routledge.