I research into the impact of curricular initiatives on students' citizenship values in terms of the development of professional practice. I also research into the Holocaust, includingr the experiences of Primo Levi and the embedding of Holocaust Education in schools. I have been entered in the education category for the 1996, 2000 and 2007 RAEs and the 2013 and 2021 REF.

External Esteem:

• Editorial boards of Educational Review (2009-2014), Genocide Studies and Prevention (2008-2013), Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (2008-present) and Citizenship Teaching and Learning (2014-present)
• Referee for Educational Review, Journal of Curriculum Studies and Scottish

            Educational Review

• President (October 2014-October 2016 and past President till 2018) Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Association and Executive Committee of Jean Monet Citizenship network (an EU funded research network)
• First vice-chair of International Cultural Research Network (2007-2013).
• Recent research reports for Scottish Government, Holocaust Educational Trust and Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe.
• Recent CPL for teachers and school students on areas relating to citizenship, values and challenging sectarianism.
• Project Board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation (a centre-left Think Tank), centrally involved in the development of Commonweal – a series of policy papers outlining social justice for a post-referendum Scotland.

• Jean Monet Network;
• Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe;
• International Association of Genocide Scholars

• Teaching and Learning about sectarianism;
• Active Learning
• Genocide