About

I work for Oxford University Press in the English Language Teaching division and I am a post-graduate student with the College of Health, Psychology and Social Care. I firmly believe in the power and importance of reading for pleasure. As an advocate, I strive to promote the joy of reading and its numerous benefits. My research aims to further the understanding of low socioeconomic parental engagement as a barrier to reading for pleasure. I enjoy creating and testing novel interventions that stimulate the imagination, enhance critical thinking skills and help children to grow socially, intellectually and emotionally, irrespective of environmental and socioeconomic factors. 

Thesis

A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Parental Engagement in Shared Reading with their 'Free Reading' Child

Supervisors

• Dr Sigrid Lipka - Director of Studies
• Peter Macauley - Supervisor
• Dominic Petronzi - Supervisor 

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Sociology - Staffordshire University 
• MA Sociology - University of East Anglia 
• MSc Psychology - University of Derby