I've led and co-led interdisciplinary health-related research for 15+ years.

I design and evaluate healthcare / pubilc health-based domestic abuse interventions for underserved groups (e.g., people with addictions/cancer), and conduct evidence syntheses and primary research to inform interventions.

My methodological expertise is qualitative methods, document analysis, and survey development.

I lead/led:

• PHRIDA (and previously PRESSURE) about  healthcare professionals' own experiences of domestic abuse.
• A sister project exploring domestic abuse, sexual violence and abuse, and childhood maltreatment among medical students.
• CancerDA, a Macmillan Cancer Support-funded project with STADA, which enhanced the cancer workforce response to domestic abuse and led to a Cancer & Domestic Abuse toolkit.
• Recording & Sharing Domestic abuse Information in Healthcare (RASDIH), which led to national  good practice recommendations

I also work on REPROVIDE, evaluating a domestic abuse perpetrator programme, and TAP Care, exploring trauma-informed care in community mental health services.

I previously worked on:

• ADVANCE - an evaluation of an intimate partner violence and substance use disorder integrated programme for men.
• HERA -  on improving healthcare responses to domestic abuse in Brazil, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

I have conducted local service evaluations on: 

• a peer support service for young women survivors of sexual violence
• an advocacy service for sexual violence survivors with learning disabilities
• a befriending service for sexual violence survivors with mental health needs
• a healthy relationships service for people aged 16-25 with unstable housing.

I have been an editor at BMC Women's Health and PLOS One. I also co-led a mapping of decolonising or decolonising-adjacent work in the University.

My broader interests are in mental health, trauma, and health inequalities. I'm keen to build international research partnerships to foster knowledge-exchange. Please get in touch to discuss collaboration or evaluation.