My research interests lie in higher education policy, globalisation and internationalisation of higher education, university rankings and their impact on policymaking and institutional behaviour, the (changing) role of the doctoral viva and higher education in Europe. My research has been published in academic journals including Contemporary Social Science, Higher Education and Tertiary Education and Management and publicised in media outlets such as the BBC, the Guardian, University World News, and Times Higher Education. I am a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 

Previously, I was a Research Centre Associate of the Department of Education at the University of Oxford (Centre for Global Higher Education - CGHE) and Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Education (also based in CGHE). Beyond academia, I have worked in both the public and private sectors for the European Commission in Brussels and Quacquarelli Symonds in London, where I am currently serving as Secretary to the QS Global Rankings Advisory Board. I have held academic positions at the College of Europe, the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, Trinity College Dublin and UCL. I am an invited Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I obtained a college-funded PhD in Education (Higher Education) from Trinity College Dublin.

I am interested in supervising students on the DBA in Higher Education Management in topics related to higher education policy, globalisation and internationalisation of higher education, student mobility, the entrepreneurial university and the building of a European higher education area.