I am a Course Director of Childhood Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. I just completed post-doctoral research working on a ESRC project looking at Philanthropic Citizenship and Primary School Children. I completed my PhD in 2022 and my thesis explored the gendered experience of school-based social action. Previously I was a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church looking at the relationship between education and the third sector. I have over ten years’ teaching experience and a further six years working at Envision, a citizenship education charity working with young people in their communities by empowering them to tackle real-life social problems.