Erin Early is a Lecturer at the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Previously, she held Sociology Lectureship at Queen’s University Belfast and a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities, Institute of Education – UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. She completed her PhD in 2020 at Queen’s University Belfast which examined educational attainment inequalities in Northern Ireland. Her research interests are centred around social inequalities, particularly within education, health and the family.