Summary: 16+ years of multidsciplinary, mixed methods research experience informed by the social, behavioural and health sciences. UK-based, with long-term projects in Bulgaria, Bangladesh, Gaza, Uganda and Tanzania.

Key thematic areas: global health, including in disasters, conflict, humanitarian and development contexts; digital health; innovation implementation and scaling up; palliative and end of life care; research ethics; military health; evidence identification; evidence synthesis; patient and community involvement and engagement; accountability to affected populations; literature reviews; report writing; peer reviewed articles.

Methodological expertise: 

• quantitative methods and sources of data (surveys, audits, data-driven research using electronic patient record data)
• qualitative approaches (interviews, focus groups, ethnographic work)
• literature reviews, including systematic literature reviews
• pictorial and other arts-based approaches
• textual analysis methods (policy documents analysis, word frequency analysis)
• mixed methods research
• theory-based approaches (e.g. realist evaluation and synthesis, ethical analysis, etc.).

Background in Psychology, Philosophy and Literature (BA in Psychology; MA-level specialisations in Clinical and Counselling Psychology and Work and Organisational Psychology; MA in Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health; minor in English Language and Literature; PhD in Philosophy of Science, on methodological issues in the synthesis of evidence on big and complex topics). 7 years of experience at the University of Cambridge, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

Most recent commitments: Acas, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, the primary UK body responsible for conflict resolution in the workplace (Sep 23 - Apr 24) and the World Health Organization (Sep 22-Jul 23), with preceding commitments with the World Food Programme (through a study commissioned to Tralsators without Borders) and the World Bank (though a monitoring and evaluation programme in Afghanistan commissioned to Integrity Global).