I am an applied health researcher at Leeds Institute of Health Sciences. I have substantial experience in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for applied health research, with particular expertise in complex intervention development and evaluation and evidence synthesis.
My first degree was an MA(Hons) in economics from the University of Edinburgh. I subsequently studied for an MSc at the University of Leeds where I received a distinction in multidisciplinary informatics (specialising in healthcare). I won funding to conduct a follow-on PhD, awarded in 2011, which used an ethnographically informed case study approach with process modelling to explore the way renal anaemia management is organised and provided in local systems and how this impacts on clinical performance. I joined the Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research following my PhD where I have led or collaborated on a large number of projects and grant applications.
My first-author publications have been cited in multiple clinical guidelines, including the Royal College of Physicians’ National clinical guideline for stroke, and other highly cited publications. I have won awards including the Elizabeth Brown prize for best platform presentation at the British Geriatrics Society spring conference 2023; the Society for Research in Rehabilitation prize for stroke rehabilitation research at the UK Stroke Forum 2019; best poster in the Information Provision to Patients section at UK Stroke Forum 2018; and recognition for patient, carer and public involvement at the UK Stroke Forum 2015.