Senior Lecturer in Public Health Research
I am a mixed methods behavioural scientist specialising in the development and process evaluation of complex behavioural interventions in obesity prevention/treatment and child/family health and wellbeing. I use a wide range of methods including systematic reviews, realist evaluation, stakeholder consultation, logic model development and intervention mapping. I have worked closely with a range of stakeholders from patients, teachers, parents and children to public health practitioners, charity workers and policy makers to support their active involvement in intervention design and optimisation. I am interested in further exploring and developing new ways of conceptualising and responding to the so called ‘wicked’ public health problems of the 21st century (obesity, loss of wellbeing and health inequality) by working with multi-disciplinary teams across health and social care, education and the humanities.
I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, convening the undergraduate Clinical Trials and postgraduate Public Health Behaviour Change Modules. I supervise both MSc and PhD students.