I am a PhD researcher at the School of Sport and Health Sciences. My reseach is looking at developing a framework which will support health and social care practitioners to engage in conversation about Domestic Abuse and Modern Slavery during remote service provision, with a view to improving victim identification and responses to disclosures of abuse. The initial focus of my work is on Sexual and Reproductive Health services, with a view to exploring the potential adaptation for other areas of health and social care, and beyond.  Prior to commencing the PhD, I completed a Masters in Global Health at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. 

I am a registered social worker, with experience working in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors, both in community, acute hospital and specialist in-patient services, with adults, young people and children. My professional specialism is adult mental health. I am particularly passionate about empowerment, advocacy and co-production in practice. 

I am interested in research that improves the accessibility and acceptability of health and social care services, with a particular focus on marginalised and disadvantaged populations. I am especially interested in issues surrounding mental health, conflict and violence, social justice, and human rights, and their intersections with gender, race and sexuality identities.

Co-production is an important aspect of my work, and I am interesting in developing the understanding of how we value different types of knowledge, and how this can be used to silence or amplify different voices. As part of this, I am exploring researchers' use of own lived experiences in their work, and how this can be understood as a legitimate form of knowledge. 

I am also interested in social work education, and ways to support and encourage more social work practitioner-led research. 

I contribute to teaching on the BSc and MSc Social Work progarmmes at the University of Brighton, and the MSc Global Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. I have a broadly humanistic outlook on teaching, aiming to create a collaborative, relationship-based environment, where students are empowered to build on their strengths, critically engage with research, theory, and practice, and explore and develop their value base.

Teaching Activity

University of Brighton: 

Academic Tutor to first year Social Work Apprentices (2024/25)

Dissertation supervisor to MSc Social Work students (2024/25)

SS406 Introduction to Social Work Practice - contribution to teaching and Apprentice group tutorial lead (2024/25)

SS409 Preparing for Social Work Practice - contribution to teaching and Apprentice group tutorial lead (2025); contribution to teaching (2026)

SS410 Law for Social Workers - contribution to teaching (2026)

SS411 Experts by Experience: Identity, Needs and Resources - contribution to teaching (2023; 2024; 2025) 

SS430 Contemporary Social Inequaities - seminar lead (2023; 2024; 2025)

SS575 Critical Social Work Practice - contribution to teaching (2024; 2025; 2026)

SS600 BSc Social Work Dissertation - contribution to teaching (2024/25; 2025/26)

SS738 Critical Social Work in Practice and Research - contribution to teaching (2023; 2024; 2025; 2026)

SS791 Practice Learning 1 - contribution to teaching (2023; 2024)

SS787 MSc Social Work Dissertation - module lead (2024/25); contribution to teaching (2026)

Brighton and Sussex Medical School:

Gobal Health Summer School - contribution to teaching on Global Burden of Disease (2024) 

MDM174 Research Practice in Global Contexts - contrinution to teaching on Research Methods (2024), and dissertation supervision (2024/25)

MDM175 Conflic, Violence and Health - contribution to teaching on Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Exploitation (2026)