Focusing on high-quality, impact-driven research grounded in lived experience, equity, and rigour. My work supports organisations, policymakers, and research consortia to understand complex realities and translate evidence into practice, policy, and responsible technology design.
I lead and deliver research projects that explore care, work, wellbeing, and digital health. I design studies, guide methodology, oversee analysis, and translate findings into outputs that inform policy, practice, and system-level decision-making.
I manage research and evaluation projects from tender award through to final delivery. I turn funded proposals into clear workplans, coordinate stakeholders, manage ethics and reporting, and keep projects moving with accountability and momentum.
I embed the right data governance and ethical structures to support research activity so projects can proceed safely, responsibly and with trust. This includes
I help organisations decide whether and how existing health and care data can be reused for research, evaluation, or learning under the European Health Data Space. I clarify roles, approvals, and governance requirements needed to share or reuse data safely and lawfully
I’ve always been a reflective person, enjoying time in my own company and thinking deeply about things. I’ve also struggled as a person to manage with life at times, and
How many of you have heard of the benefits of gratitude. Research has shown that practicing gratitude has many benefits for our health such as reducing our stress, helping us
My PhD topic, Online Support Groups for Family Caregivers: Understanding the Psychosocial Mechanisms, opened the door for me to understand not just if peer support groups work, but why they work.
I’m grateful to have shared my research through open access journals as well as national and international conferences.
My full thesis as well as the individual papers are available below.
This study aimed to further the understanding about the types and characteristics of online support groups for family caregivers.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
DOI:10.2196/46858
This study explored whether a sense of collective or group identity was established in an online group and what this meant to the group members. We concluded that group identity can be cultivated through considered, active and balanced moderation, creating a safe, welcoming and supportive space where family caregivers are able to have fun and seek information, advice and emotional support, which helps relieve loneliness and social isolation.
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
DOI:10.1007/s12529-023-10203-z
This study looks at the relationship between social support and engagement. Drawing together the findings, we present a new framework, the Journey of Engagement and Support in Online Support Groups for Family Caregivers. This maps the stages for engagement and support in an OSG.
This study explores the relationship between social identity, social support and perceived stress. We also considered the differences in characteristics between members and non-members of online support groups. We found no difference in levels of perceived stress for the cohorts (both high). We found that there was an indirect relationship between social identity and social support and stress.