I am Professor of Medical Education Research, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I also hold a Visiting Professorship at King's College London, and have honorary positions in Psychology at UCL and in Respiratory sciences at the University of Leicester. 

I am currently Parliamentary Academic Fellow with the UK Parliament, working with the Health and Social Care Select Committee's Independent Expert Panel, evaluating the Government's progress on delivering its pledges. 

Since 2015 I have been Deputy Lead for Research at UCL Medical School. Between 2018 to 2021 I was a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Career Development Fellow in Medical Education, leading the UK Medical Applicant Cohort Study.  

My work aims to understand and improve medical students’ and doctors’ learning and performance, and thus improve patient care.   I believe equality and fairness are vital for effective selection, learning, assessment, and performance, and these values underpin my major research areas: 

-  improving educational outcomes for minority ethnic medical students and doctors, through my work on differential attainment.

- improving access to medicine by helping medical applicants from diverse backgrounds make informed choices about which medical schools they apply to, as part of the NIHR-funded UK Medical Applicant Cohort Study

- improving the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers from ethnic minority groups, as part of  The United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity And COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH Study) https://uk-reach.org/main/, with the University of Leicester.

My background is in Psychology: In 2003 I graduated with a first class BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Goldsmith's College. I then worked as a Research Assistant at Goldsmith's, continuing my third year undergraduate research project on musical savant skills, for which I won the University of London Sir Cyril Burt Prize. I also worked part-time for an MP in Westminster. 

I joined UCL in 2004 as a Research Assistant, and between 2005 and 2008 undertook a PhD in Medical Education and Psychology supervised by Professor Dame Jane Dacre and Professor Chris McManus. 

In 2009 I became a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Medical Education and an Honorary Research Fellow in Psychology at UCL. In 2014 I was promoted to Associate Professor while on maternity leave with twins and in 2021 promoted to Professor while working part-time. From 2015 to 2020 was educational advisor to the Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK) examination.