Lois is an early career researcher interested in exploring how gender diversity emerges in youth, school and sporting contexts. She has completed a PhD in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, supervised by Dr Kate Russell and Professor Esther Priyadharshini.

Her doctoral research explored how gender diversity comes to matter in Physical Education (PE) contexts in England. Using a combination of creative qualitative methods and a post-qualitative approach to analysis, the research explores how gender diverse youth and PE teachers become entangled with the human, non-human and material in particular ways, bringing about a range of emergences and exclusions. For example, how bodies become entangled with timetables, PE kits, friendships and sporting policy documents to bring about particular framings of gender and inclusion. 

Lois has completed degrees in Physical Education (BA) and Social Science Research Methods (MRes) previously. She is keen on creative and participatory methodologies and the possibilities of co-production with young people, and is interested in new materialist and posthumanist theories.

Lois has taught on several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, exploring a range of qualitative, creative and participatory research methods, as well as critical understandings of sport, culture and society. 

She has recently begun a new role as Senior Research Associate on the Little Minds project, funded by the Joyce Morris fund. Utilising a realist methodology and participatory action research approach, Lois will oversee the development of the project as it explores how mindfulness-based pedagogies can be embedded in early years settings to support children's speech, language and communication development.