Alice is a Researcher at the Rees Centre, and the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE). She is also Course Leader for Advanced Qualitative Research: Course 2.
Her main research areas include:
- School exclusion
- Equity, inclusion, and belonging in education
- Policy sociology
- Collaboration, and multi-agency working
Currently, Alice works on the Department for Education funded ‘Evaluation of the expanded duties of virtual schools’, and the ‘Research Collaboration in Education’ project (funded by the Department of Education Research Culture Grant). Previously, Alice was Co-Investigator and Research Officer on the ESRC-funded project ‘The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences’, which compared the contextual and institutional processes that lead to different types of school exclusion (official and ‘hidden’) across the four UK jurisdictions and the consequences for excluded young people, their families, schools, and other professionals.
Alice holds a DPhil in Education from the University of Oxford (ESRC Scholar) where she was co-supervised across the Department of Education and Centre for Criminology. Her thesis explored the enactment of national school exclusion policy at the local level in England through an embedded single-case study. Alice also holds a MSc in Education (Research Training) from the University of Oxford (ESRC Scholar), and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology from the University of Bath.