About
I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections (http://hprugi.nihr.ac.uk) working within the People and Places Theme. Within this role, I use my expertise in qualitative methods and ethnographic approaches to examine health inequalities in gastrointestinal infections. My main area of research is infectious diseases as applied to public health. I also have a research interest in the intersection between human and non-human animals, having trained and worked as a vet.
In my post-doctoral fellow role, I am involved in several collaborative pieces of work. I am the Principal Investigator on a project examining resilience in local health protection systems in the context of COVID-19 and austerity. Alongside this work, I am leading a study which is a collaboration between the UKHSA and the University of Warwick to investigate inequalities in the impact of exclusions due to E. Coli infection. I also have an advisory role in a project exploring the 'risk' of infectious diseases on petting farms led by the NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science (https://hprubse.nihr.ac.uk/).
I prioritise patient and public involvement in all my work and was successful in securing competitive funding for a collaborative project with the NIHR HPRU in Genomics and Enabling Data (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/hpruged/). This Public Involvement Project is exploring how to involve the public in pathogen genomic data visualisation.
I was awarded Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority in 2024 in recognition for my contribution to teaching across the University Of Liverpool. I have contributed to teaching in the undergraduate MBCHB programme, Veterinary Science programme and Bioveterinary Science programme. I have also taught in the Master in Critical Medical Humanities, MPH programme and a PGR programme Research Health, Medicine and Society.
I completed my PhD at the University of Liverpool. In My PhD, I used an ethnographic approach to critically examine the dominant individualistic approach to GI infections in the community and illuminate socio-economic inequalities in GI infections for families with young children.
Before my PhD, I held several clinical veterinary roles in the UK and overseas in large and small animal practice.
Keywords: qualitative, ethnography, infectious diseases, #fixedterm.