After graduating from the University of Sheffield with a BSc in Psychology Ruth worked as a teaching assistant at a school for children and young people with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties. She then undertook a social sciences PGCE at the University of Leicester which she completed in 2007. Ruth worked for three years as a teacher of Psychology and Health Social Care at a comprehensive school in Birmingham, before gaining a place on the Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate Course. Her doctoral thesis used Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to explore the ways in which Muslim girls’ aspirations are constructed in secondary schools.
Since graduating in 2013 Ruth has worked a West Midlands local authority as a main grade Educational Psychologist and, since 2020, as a Senior Educational Psychologist. She commenced her role as an Academic and Professional Tutor at the University of Birmingham in September 2023.
Ruth is interested in anti-oppressive practice in relation to the work of Educational Psychologists and specifically, the roles of consultation, supervision, formulation and coproduction in Educational Psychology Practice.