Alice Tawell is a researcher in the Rees Centre and the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Alice was previously co-investigator and researcher on the ESRC-funded Excluded Lives project: The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences. Her research interests include exclusion from school, inequalities in education, critical policy analysis and policy enactment, and collaboration and multi-agency working.