I’m delighted to share that I have won the 2026 UCL Faculty Education Award for Innovation and have been shortlisted for the UCL Provost Education Award. Very proud to work at UCL alongside excellent colleagues and outstanding students. Grateful for the recognition.

Fed up with incompetent leaders? My new book includes antidotes and an interactive section where readers can share their experiences with incompetent leaders. Let’s stop rewarding performance without substance and start demanding competence. www.amazon.co.uk/Successful-I...

My next book comes out on 30 April 2026 — and it is already available for pre-order 🙂📘 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJG6J55...

My next book comes out on 30 April 2026, and it is already available for pre-order 🙂📘 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJG6J55...

A new piece of the bilingualism puzzle is out today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Our new open-access paper shows that age and early language experience shape the time course of infants’ and toddlers’ attention to faces and mouths.

QF’s International Day of Education Summit was inspiring. Excited for the launch of EduQ (PUE Journal of Education Research). Honoured to join the Editorial Board. Looking forward to new collaborations across the Gulf.

I’ve been invited by Qatar Foundation’s Education Development Institute to deliver a keynote for the UNESCO International Day of Education 2026. Co-Creating Multilingual Futures: Learning to Thrive in a Rapidly Changing World. What changes when we treat students’ languages as a resource