She worked for many years as a primary teacher, specialising in Support for Learning, before becoming an Inclusion Development Officer and has extensive experience of working collaboratively with parents, teachers and colleagues from other professions. She is a year co-ordinator on the BEd programme and teaches on the Masters in Inclusive Education programme; she is also the School of Education's disability co-ordinator. Her research interests include professional identity in teacher education, inclusive education and dyslexia. She has written on Inter-professional approaches to practice (Forde et al., 2011); she contributed to the Literature Review on Teacher Education in the 21st Century (Scottish Government, 2010) and to the Assessment at Transition report (Scottish Government, 2012).