The sociology of education and social inequalities; policy, governance, teaching, learning, assessment, lifelong learning and the education-work relationship.
Elected 2024
Factors affecting the development of language skills in monolingual and multilingual children, the relation of language skills to literacy development, instructional activities that support critical thinking, argumentation, academic language and perspective-taking
The intersection of sociology and education to examine the relationship between racial inequality and education policy and practice; the application of social theory to understand, develop and sustain antiracist education
Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.