Vicky’s research and teaching spans over two decades, in this time she has developed a national and International reputation for research in Intergenerational Education and Literacy. As such, Vicky has developed considerable expertise in Adult, Intergenerational Education and Literacy and is deeply committed to challenging inequality through critical and emancipatory approaches to education, widening participation, inclusion, community action and engaging in research with a strong social justice agenda. She has drew on a critical perspective, applying Bourdieu’s work as the theoretical framework, as well as using a range of feminist, sociology of education, literature on the ethics of care and critical literacy pedagogy, including the New Literacy Studies to explore and add to the debate on the impact of violence and trauma on learning, possibilities, resistance and transformation and its link to class, gender, ethnicity, health and literacy.