I currently work as a Research Associate on an NIHR funded programme ADVANCE, a digital perpetrator intervention aiming to reduce domestic abuse by men who misuse substances. Within ADVANCE-D I work with colleagues across the Universities of Manchester, Kings College London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff to collect and analyse data from men serving community sentences and their current or ex-partners. 

Having led multiple process evaluations on complex multi-site intervention studies, such as the NIHR funded projects EDITION (enhancing de-escalation techniques in adult acute and forensic services) and TULIPS (Talk, understand, listen in inpatient settings), I have significant experience in the use of qualitative methods and analysis within research trials. I also have wealth of experience across acute, PICU and forensic inpatient psychiatric settings and substance detoxification centres where I worked in support roles throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

I am passionate about research aiming to improve forensic mental health care and outcomes of offending behaviour interventions. I have a particular interest in therapeutic relationships between clinicians and service users within these settings. More broadly, my areas of interest include: research aiming to improve outcomes of secondary and tertiary mental health care, qualitative methodologies, and innovative approaches to involving experts by experience in design, analysis and co-production.

Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (Division of Forensic Psychology)