Her research interests lie in reading development, in particular how children’s reading difficulties manifest themselves in their eye movements. She completed her doctorate in children’s eye movements during reading at the University of Durham in 2008. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford for five years, investigating reading behaviour in children with comprehension difficulties. Since then she has looked at reading in children with dyslexia and autism, as well as children who speak English as an Additional Language.