I am a midwife and the Head of Nurse and Midwife Led Research at ACORN (A Centre of Research for Nurses and Midwives) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. This role includes a secondment one day a week to London South Bank University as an Associate Professor. 

I currently hold an NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award. I have previously held an NIHR Wellbeing of Women Doctoral Fellowship and an HEE-NIHR Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship. I completed my doctorate, which focused on improving maternity care for women affected by previous trauma, at the University of Central Lancashire in 2024. I plan to develop this work further in the postdoctoral period by exploring the impact of trauma on maternity care staff. 

I can offer support with qualitative and participatory methodologies, particularly Critical Participatory Action Research, as well as approaches informed by trauma-informed perspectives. I am increasingly interested in combining these approaches with policy and economic evaluation methods.