After graduating with a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Reading, Elizabeth Holmes completed her PGCE at the Institute of Education, University of London. She then taught humanities and social sciences in schools in London, Oxfordshire and West Sussex, where her teaching experience included running the history department in a challenging comprehensive.

Elizabeth Holmes now writes primarily on education and health issues for a variety of national publications, websites and publishers. She has had well over 400 magazine, newspaper and Internet features published in Teachers Magazine (the DfES magazine), Sure Start Magazine, Ruler (the Teacher Training Agency magazine), BBC NewsOnline, the Sunday Times, the Times Educational Supplement, Here's Health, Family Circle and on www.eteach.com, www.teachernet.gov.uk and Schoolmanager.net among others and she is often asked her opinion for inclusion in articles in The Guardian and The Independent newspapers and on the BBC.

Her books have been published by The Stationery Office, Kogan Page, RoutledgeFalmer, Routledge, Element, Chrysalis (Vega), Schoolmanager.net and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. She has contributed to education debate on BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Southern Counties Radio and Splash FM and has written for and appeared on Teachers' TV. Elizabeth also writes online professional development courses for Optimus Professional Learning and for Cambridge International Examinations.

In 2006, Elizabeth co-wrote the teaching and classroom materials for Sport Relief, a Comic Relief initiative in association with BBC Sport. You can find out more about this here.

Elizabeth writes CPD Week, a free weekly ezine on continuing professional and personal development for CPD coordinators in schools. Click here to subscribe.

In her spare time, Elizabeth is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development at Sussex University, exploring the therapeutic uses of all forms of creative writing in various settings including schools. She is a member of LAPIDUS (Literary Arts in Personal Development) and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and is also a school governor at a large first school, focussing in particular on pupils and teachers, the curriculum and the Foundation Stage.