Parise is a PhD student in education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Her interests are masculinities, intersectionality and identity in adolescence; her research focusses on adolescent boys’ mental health and wellbeing in education as part of the the National Lottery Community Fund HeadStart programme, which aims to improve mental health outcomes for young people across the UK. Parise has worked with children and young people across the 0–25 age range, in early years settings, a specialist support high school, a youth centre and the supported learning department of a further education college.