Dr Mahera Ruby was previously a researcher at the University of Goldsmiths, where she co-directed the ESRC-funded research project on 'Becoming literate through faith: language and literacy learning in the lives of new Londoners'.

In addition to working on the Paul Hamlyn Foundation project on 'Developing bilingual pedagogies through partnership between supplementary and mainstream schools'.

She has worked on two ESRC projects, Intergenerational learning between children and grandparents and Developing bilingual learning in mainstream and community contexts.

Since 2004 she has been a parenting practitioner and since 2012 the Founder and Director of Blooming Parenting. In 2015, Dr Mahera Ruby completed her PhD at the University of Goldsmiths in the Department of Education. Her research paper focused on intergenerational learning taking place in three generations of families whose origins are from Bangladesh.