I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, investigating how neurocognitive mechanisms may index risk and resilience for later mental health difficulties. My doctoral thesis, from the Social Research Institute (UCL IOE), investigated teachers’ recognition of anxiety and somatic symptoms in their pupil, building on previous research I carried out for the Department of Health into the prevalence and patterning of anxiety and somatic symptoms in children. I started my research career at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University, on a longitudinal study investigating the social contexts of pathways into crime. More recently, I worked at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (UCL IOE), where I investigated mechanisms underpinning sensory sensitivities in autistic children.