She has a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Learning Sciences. Dr Ainsworth has over fifteen years of research experience. Her work typically focuses on the roles of multiple and visual representations and on the design and evaluation of interactive technologies (e.g. authoring tools, educational games, mobile learning, CSCL). This research been supported by the ESRC and EPSRC (UK), Sixth Framework Programme (EU) and Office of Naval Research & National Science Foundation (USA) .She has published 60 journal papers, high quality conference papers and book chapters on these topics. She sits on the management board of the University of Nottingham's Learning Sciences Research Institute, a joint venture between the Schools of Psychology, Education and Computer Science where she supervises PhD students for all three schools.