Amy is an experienced project manager and researcher. Before joining IES, she worked at Aston University, successfully managing collaborative research projects with NHS England, assessing interventions designed to improve staff wellbeing in Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Departments.

With over 17 years of experience leading and delivering large-scale research projects, Amy has demonstrated expertise in project management and research across academia and the voluntary sector. She has managed research initiatives in education, covering public engagement with research, early speech and language skills, parental engagement, and reading skills including phonics. Through this experience, she has gained a good understanding of early years practice and policy.

Amy’s project management skills include overseeing research operations, programme design, staff training, large-scale data collection and analysis of standardized psychometric assessments. As a researcher, Amy has experience in intervention implementation, survey design, interviewing, focus groups, and report writing. She has applied these skills to investigate complex issues in education and healthcare.

Amy also brings experience from primary education practice, working as an EAL coordinator, intervention specialist, teacher, and TA. These roles have afforded her an understanding of the challenges and opportunities in real-life educational contexts.

Amy’s interest in language and literacy, parental engagement, and workplace well-being has driven her to make contributions through research. At UCL, during CV-19 she successfully managed the delivery of the Flexible Phonics project, a large-scale efficacy trial aimed at improving how schools teach children to read in reception while working with the evaluation team to ensure robust research outcomes.

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