jewitt’s greatest achievements include working with county councils in england to build an online distance education system for young people excluded from school to be educated from their home. she also developed a virtual learning environment to support and enhance psychological well-being for young people going through key life transition points and developed virtual reality training systems with councils to support newly qualified social workers working with vulnerable children and young people, using virtual reality. for her phd research, she worked with smes to use virtual reality to support apprentices’ work-based learning developing a three-way partnership between education provider, sme and apprentice.