As principle investigator I led a small team of post-doctoral researchers on a project funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund conducting ethnographic research on crises of care, labour and wellbeing in UK primary schools in afterlife of the Covid-19 pandemic (with Dr Jenny Hewitt and Dr Sarah-Jane Phelan).  We went on to build on this research with a Sussex Knowledge Exchange and Policy Fellowship - Crisis of Care in the Classroom: The Afterlife of the Pandemic in UK Primary Schools - which focused on taking our findings forward to influence critical public debate and policy on primary education, crises of teacher retention & recruitment, and school funding through:

• 3-part podcast series
• Media engagement eg. Times Edication Supplement and House of Commons Parliamentary magazine for MPs, House: "Turning Around Teaching: How to Boost Recruitment and Retention". 
• Policy briefs and evidence submissions to the Public Affairs All Party Parliamentary Group Education Committee on teacher recruitment, training and retention: written evidence submitted to committee