Ann Phoenix is currently Kerstin Hesselgren guest professor in the Department of Education, Umeå University, Sweden. Her permanent employment is as Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences and is on the Trust Board of the Nuffield Foundation, which has a mission to advance educational opportunity and social wellbeing through its research funding. Her research is mainly about social identities and the ways in which psychological experiences and social processes are linked and intersectional. It includes work on racialised and gendered identities; family lives and home; migration and transnational families.