About
Suzy is an experienced researcher and has worked in the areas of public health, community health, and health service use since 2001. She is currently working in the Institute of Population Health at the University of Liverpool on the NIHR RENAL-HF project: personalising renal function monitoring and interventions in people living with heart failure, specifically on work package 2: the co-creation of a care pathway.
Prior to this role, she was co-applicant and research officer on Swansea University's Alcohol Change UK funded project: Telling our own stories (TaSTe): an exploratory study of alcohol harm by people who identify as Roma, Gypsies and Travellers. This project took a community-based participatory approach to exploring the experiences of alcohol use and harm amongst people whose background is Roma, Gypsy, or Traveller. The purpose of the study was to explore and raise awareness of alcohol; to explore the effects of culture on alcohol use; to identify similarities and differences between drinking cultures between different groups; and, to explore people's understanding and views of alcohol harm. Alongside this, she worked with the radiography team at the University of Salford on a project looking for digital solutions for the impact of COVID-19 on the UK Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) based at the School of Health and Society.
Her previous role at the University of Salford was working on an NIHR funded evaluation of the Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) intervention across Greater Manchester. The intervention involved training of community members to become alcohol health champions to deliver alcohol-related brief advice and help communities tackle the availability of alcohol through the licensing process.
She is currently writing up her PhD research at the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research looked at mental health and substance use amongst Irish Traveller communities and gave herthe opportunity to have in-depth conversations with community members and health and wellbeing service providers.