Based in BRIGHT (Bristol Research on the Intersection of Gender, Health, and Trauma), I design and evaluate healthcare and public health-based interventions for underserved groups affected by domestic and sexual violence and abuse, and conduct evidence syntheses and primary research to inform interventions.

I have (co)-led interdisciplinary applied health research for 15+ years, with expertise in qualitative and mixed methods.

Current projects

• Healthcare professionals' experiences of domestic abuse across NIHR-funded studies (IRIS-PH, PHRIDA, PRESSURE) 
• Cancer and domestic abuse: Marie Curie-funded CEDA on caregivers' experiences of abuse in end-of-life care (co-led with Dr Michelle Myall, University of Southampton) and Macmillan-funded studies strengthening the cancer workforce response, culminating in a national Cancer & Domestic Abuse toolkit.
• With Prof Aisha Gill (PI), a UKRI-funded study about Black and racially minoritised women and girls' experiences of sexual violence, shame, and epistemic injustice.

Previous projects include:

• Recording & Sharing Domestic abuse Information in Healthcare (RASDIH), leading to national good practice recommendations
• NIHR-funded ADVANCE: evaluation of an integrated intimate partner violence and substance use programme for men.
• NIHR-funded REPROVIDE: RCT of domestic abuse perpetrator programme.
• NIHR-funded HERA: improving healthcare responses to domestic abuse in Brazil, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
• Trauma-informed care in community mental health services, led by Dr Natalia Lewis.

And previous service evaluations include: 

• Peer support for young women survivors of sexual violence
• Advocacy service for survivors with learning disabilities
• Befriending for survivors with mental health needs
• Healthy relationships service for people aged 16-25 with unstable housing.

I have also served as an editor for the journals BMC Women's Health and PLOS One and co-led a university-wide mapping of decolonising work.

Broader interests are social justice and health inequalities. I am keen to build international research partnerships and welcome conversations about collaboration or evaluation.