Elizabeth Washbrook is a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods for Education and a member of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the University of Bristol, and an Associate of the Columbia Population Research Center. Since earning her Ph.D., she has been a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, a Post-doctoral Scholar at Columbia University and a Visiting Scholar at the VU University, Amsterdam. Her interests include the relationships between family background, policy and early childhood outcomes and methodological issues in the analysis of longitudinal data.