Roisin P. Corcoran is Chair in Education and Professor at the University of Nottingham. She is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol), and was named a Fellow (FBPsS) of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Prior to her appointment at the University of Nottingham, she was an Associate Professor at UCD, an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University.