Expertise
Parental Involvement and Engagement in Schooling and Learning, Health and Educational
Biography
Amy joined PenARC in July 2022 as a Research Associate on the Child Health and Maternity national priority programme. This programme seeks to find effective ways to implement evidence-based interventions to improve children’s and maternity services widely across England.
She undertook a PhD in Education at Cardiff University. The PhD focused on understanding the impact of poverty and stigmatisation on parental involvement in schooling, parental engagement in learning and parent-school relationships, examining how these compound and interact to impact children’s health and educational outcomes.