As information specialist at Cochrane Oral Health, my main duties are as follows:

• To act as an expert information specialist in the field of oral health, advising an international Cochrane Editorial Team (and external bodies where appropriate) on searching techniques and technologies
  
• To provide expert guidance on key processes to ensure the high quality of Cochrane reviews, which feed into international guidelines and clinical practice
• To design, update and execute complex specialist search strategies for a range of medical databases to be used in systematic reviews and other projects
• To manage the Group’s Specialised Clinical Trials Register, including identifying and searching clinical trials literature sources, ensuring that Cochrane quality standards for publication are high.
• To manage the work of administrative staff, and supervise their day-to-day activity on the Specialised Register.
• To train and mentor others in searching for clinical trials information, including contributing to the literature and conducting workshops.
• To apply expert knowledge to add metadata to Cochrane reviews, contributing to controlled vocabularies
• To manage communications strategy, leading the development and implementation of knowledge exchange strategies to support and promote the research collaboration’s mission.

• 2022 - PhD Public Health (Dentistry)
• 2010 - MPhil Information Studies
• 2001 - MA Information Management
• 1998 - BA (Hons) Combined Studies