I am currently a senior research assistant in the Northumbria University psychology and communication technology (PaCT) lab. I have joined a multi-disciplinary research team on an externally funded (EPSRC) project developing a remote system for self-assessment of chewing – the long-term aim being intervention development to explore and address chewing difficulty and related wellbeing and quality of life parameters.  I have been involved in university psychology teaching and research since around 2015 after several years as a dentist in general practice and as a health promotion specialist at community and strategic levels.  My PhD involved an extensive PPIE-guided exploratory study of eating experience with early intervention development for people with Sjögren's syndrome. This included application of a novel ethnographic methodology - foodplay.

Quality of life, clinician-patient interaction, long-term illness experience - including self-management and remote systems, intervention development, PPIE and person-centred research, and broader oral health, eating experience, health psychology and related themes.