I am a sociologist studying how social inequalities unfold across education and employment and are shaped by organisational, family, and digital contexts, with a particular focus on life course processes, drawing on quantitative methods.

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. My research focuses on inequalities in adult education and their implications for social mobility and life-course trajectories. I examine who participates in further training, who benefits from it, and how these processes shape broader patterns of social inequality.

At the core of my work is a central question:

Does further training in adulthood act as an equaliser that reduces inequality, or as an amplifier that reinforces existing divides?

By addressing this question, I assess whether widely held political narratives framing adult education as a “second chance” hold up empirically, or whether participation and returns are systematically skewed towards already advantaged groups, in line with the Matthew effect.

Previously, I worked at the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and the University of Osnabrück, where I investigated whether and in which contexts technological change substitutes or complements human labour.