Sophie is a Senior Associate in the Compliance team at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She works on developing targeted interventions to improve the compliance of duty bearers with their equality and human rights obligations, particularly in relation to work and employment. Sophie has worked within equality, diversity and inclusion since 2016, including as an Equality and Human Rights Advisor within the private sector and as a Discrimination Caseworker for an equality centre. She has a PhD in Discrimination Law through the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity at the University of Chester Law School, with a particular focus on the use of positive action to address underrepresentation.