I am an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, where I also serve as PGR Director. My research examines inclusive education, additional learning needs, and neurodivergence, with a particular focus on how education systems identify and support children, and on the consequences of those decisions for learners' outcomes and experiences.

I specialise in mixed-methods research, combining large-scale analysis of administrative datasets with qualitative work alongside children, families and educators. My work spans three connected levels: the individual, where I have shown how diagnostic labels shape children's beliefs about their own ability; the population, where my analysis of Welsh administrative data has mapped who is identified with special educational needs and why; and policy, where I have developed comparative frameworks for analysing inclusion across the UK.

My research has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC, and has informed government reviews and national media debate on how education systems can better support neurodivergent children. Across all of it, my aim is to produce evidence that improves how schools and systems understand and respond to difference.