Amy has extensive experience conducting research in organisational settings, focusing on family separation, support services, education, SEN, and disadvantage. Specialising in qualitative research she was previously a Research Director at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) where she led qualitative, mixed methods, and evaluation projects, using deliberative methods, depth interviews, focus groups, and developing logic models. As Head of Policy and Research at Gingerbread, she led mixed-method research on single parents and their children. Other roles include teaching at Oxford Brookes, developing tools for the Early Support Programme, and working with HMP Holloway and NCB.