As a specialist of Psychology & Behavioural Medicine, I am interested in the lived experience of illness and how to sustain healthy behaviour. I am particularly interested in aging having conducted research in dementia prevention and diagnosis. I am very interested in how deprivation affects health and health behaviours

My research interests include:

• prevention, diagnosis, and management of dementia
• deprivation medicine
• GP decision-making and behaviour
• health inequities (including minoritised ethnic groups)
• coping with chronic illnesses
• long covid
• cultural representations of health and wellbeing

I teach across a range of modules with specialising on applying social psychology theories, health-related behaviours, and qualitative approaches.

I am currently module coordinator for Mood and Anxiety disorders in Children (SS604), an optional module for students on undergraduate psychology courses in their final year.

I also teach on a variety if undergraduate psychology modules including: Developmental Psychology; Psychology and Society; Psychology, Cognition and Social Worlds; Psychology, The Body, and Individial Differences; and Psychology, Mental Health, & Distress.

I have taught psychology and psychological theories on several courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level including: psychology, social sciences, medicine, public health, and the arts (drama/fine arts/literature).

I supervise undergraduate psychology students, and postgraduate students across health-related courses.

I am interested in supervising students in any of the following areas:

• coping and living with illness
• deprivation and health
• Health-care professionals behaviour
• dementia and aging health

Projects might use creative visual methods, qualitative methods, non-experimental quantitative methods, or mixed/multiple methods. I particularly welcome students who are interested in exploring the experience of marginalised or minoritised groups. I am also interested in exploring alternative datasets including photos, narratives, or cultural representations of health and medicine.

I am currently supervising projects on the following:

• lived experience of covid lockdowns
• lived experience of long covid
• understanding symptoms of long covid
• effect of covid governmental policy on the care workers
• wellbeing and resilience of women post-Sarah Everard
• effectiveness of doll therapies for patients with dementia
• understanding vaccine hesitancy in ethnic minority populations