Eleanor is senior research assistant at Northumbria, working with Professor Jason Scott on SAMueL-3. SAMueL-3 is an NIHR funded project in collaboration with Dr Michael Allen at the University of Exeter, working to improve acute stroke care. 

Before coming to Northumbria, Eleanor was Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Health and Illness at Newcastle University where she worked with Dr Gethin Rees to develop the sociology of diagnosis in women's health. 

Eleanor has previously worked with Professor Catherine Will, Professor Bobbie Farsides, Dr Ulla McKnight and Dr Liz McDonnell at the University of Susssex as postdoctoral research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project 'Marginalisation and the Microbe: How to Mobilise on Antimicrobial Resistance without Increasing Health Inequalities.' 

Eleanor completed her PhD in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sussex (2023). Her research is committed to equitable and collective mobilisations on AMR with different overlapping groups such as patients, clinicians and policymakers and seeks to develop new approaches in the sociology of diagnosis. 

She has experience teaching on the Sociology of Health and Illness and Sociological theory within Sociology Departments and Medical Schools. 

Eleanor is a member of the British Sociological Association, and APRHAI, the Advisory Commmittee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections.