Mary is Professor of Educational Assessment in the Dept for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at UCL Institute of Education in London. She teaches on the MA in Assessment and supervises doctoral students interested in assessment, ethics and children’s rights. Mary is interested in the intersection of technical and philosophical elements of educational assessment and is currently examining the role of artificial intelligence in the practice of high-stakes testing; and leading the reporting for England on the international Trends in Mathematics and Science Studies (2023) for the DfE. She sits on Research Advisory Groups for AQA, Qualifications Wales and the NCFE. She is an executive editor for the journal, Assessment in Education. Her recent book, Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment (UCL Press, 2022) focuses on her continued interest in how we communicate about assessment in public spaces and what this means for test takers' and their learner identities.