Sophie is an education researcher based in the Education Data Lab at WISERD. She is working with Administrative Data Research Wales to explore educational outcomes for young people, particularly around themes of attainment, attendance, exclusion and subject choice.
Sophie completed her PhD in Physics Education at Cardiff University in 2019. This work evaluated interventions to improve secondary school pupils’ engagement with the physics curriculum. Since then, she has continued to work at Cardiff University on various education projects of both national and international scale. This has included projects designed to improve pupils’ opportunities in and access to STEM education and careers, and research into the training and wellbeing of healthcare professionals.
Sophie’s research interests centre around young people’s educational experiences and outcomes. In particular, how different factors shape young people’s attainment, interest, subject choice and sense of opportunity. Having worked closely with primary experiential data, Sophie is now interested in how such data can be mapped to administrative data.
Sophie works within the Education Data Lab, utilising administrative education data from SAIL Databank and ADR Wales to explore educational outcomes for young people, including themes of attainment, attendance, exclusion and subject choice.