Alix Robertson

As Head of Engagement, Alix is responsible for ensuring CfEY’s work reaches far into the education and youth sectors. She supports colleagues and clients with planning communications strategies for report launches, writing blog and op-eds, pitching to the press, and social media messaging. Alix organises and runs online and in-person CfEY events, speaks at external events, and supports colleagues with their own speaking opportunities. Alix also co-produces CfEY’s Youth and Education Podcast. She has carried out research on a range of topics, including special educational needs and disabilities, barriers to accessing UK higher education, post-16 transitions, tutoring, and supporting student mental health. Alix has also conducted several evaluations and delivered evaluation training to a range of organisations. She has a special interest in mental health, authoring a chapter on the subject for CfEY’s book, Young People on the Margins and sitting on the Steering Committee for the Queen Mary University of London Development of Emotional Resilience (DEER) study. Alix started out as an English teacher and went on to work as an education journalist for sister papers FE Week and Schools Week, before joining CfEY.