Behaviour change, patient safety & research for complex healthcare environments.
Health Services Researcher, Behavioural Scientist, and Realist Methodologist with 10 years of experience turning evidence into safer, better care. Currently at the University of Birmingham, Deputy Lead of the Pathways and Culture theme at the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration. Previously at the University of Surrey.
Secured over £2.1 million in research funding to date, including £300k as Principal Investigator and £2m+ as Co-Investigator across NIHR and NHS-funded projects.
First-author publications since 2018, with an H-index of 14 and first-author citation impact more than double the global field-weighted average.
Altmetric percentile of my top paper in BMC Medicine — highlighted as Editor's Choice and shaping how the NHS addresses unprofessional behaviour.
Key Highlights
Four programmes of research
Explore my main research projects — each illustrated card below is clickable and links to a full page of publications, grants and impact.
Understanding and reducing unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff
View project →How, when and why inter-organisational collaboration in the NHS works
View project →Building a safety net for earlier diagnosis of lung cancer
View project →Methodological innovations across realist methods and behavioural science
View project →Teaching case study
From live seminar to open online course
A deep-dive into how I co-built an Implementation Science CPD course — and the collaboration, convening and platform-building skills behind it.
Building the Implementation Science Masterclass CPD Course
View case study →How I lead
From Chief Investigator of an NHS clinical trial during my PhD, to sole research fellow delivering two NIHR projects on time, to now line-managing researchers and supervising PhD and master's students — I believe in robust project management, mentoring the next generation of researchers, and putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the forefront of everything I do.
Read more → Read about mentoring the next generation of researchers →Problems I solve
From unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff to missed follow-up of lung cancer patients, I specialise in changing human behaviour in complex healthcare contexts. I combine realist methods, behavioural science, and qualitative and quantitative research to turn intractable problems into actionable programme theories and practical guidance.
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