My background is in speech and language therapy and I have previously specialised in supporting children’s development in the early years- working with parents and practitioners and within wider community teams. I have a lot of experience relating to interventions that focus on adult-child interactions.
My DPhil is researching how we can use different process evaluation methods when measuring the impact of complex early years interventions. By considering a range of contextual factors within the evaluation process, an intervention can better demonstrate if it works, who it works for, how, and why.
I am currently supporting the evaluation of the START programme, which supports toddlers with a family connection to autism or ADHD to develop strong attention, regulation and thinking skills. I am also collaborating with the Ashmolean museum and helping to evaluate the implementation of their museum based toddler programme promoting family interactions in the museum space.
