Laura King is a lecturer in Primary Initial Teacher Education at the University of Derby. She has worked as a primary teacher predominantly in EYFS and Key Stage 1 and has also worked as a Research Assistant on the FoSTER project research at the University of Oxford, exploring teachers' engagement with and in research. Laura is currently studying for an EdD Education at the University of Birmingham, exploring the enactment of the teaching for mastery policy and how this impacts children’s experience of mathematics in Key Stage 1, through the lens of social justice. She is particularly interested in ways to co-construct data with young children and the experiences of conducting insider research.