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Ann Phoenix

Professor at University College London

About me

Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy of Social Sciences and is a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, which has a mission to advance educational opportunity and social wellbeing through its research funding. Her research is mainly about social identities and the ways in which psychological experiences and social processes are linked and intersectional. It includes work on racialised and gendered identities; family lives and home; migration and transnational families. Ann’s work has included many international collaborations across various continents.