I joined the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Systems Science team in November 2024 as a Research Assistant. 

Before moving to Glasgow I worked at the EPPI-Centre at University College London (UCL), where I produced evidence syntheses for a range of policy and practice partners including the Department of Health and Social Care. I also worked on systematic reviews for the purposes of informing National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines on a range of mental health and social care topics.

My doctoral work, funded by NIHR ARC North Thames, explores how local authorities in England responded to initiatives to build up collaborative research infrastructure to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health.

I will be capturing learning across two different projects taking systems approaches to tackling health inequalities SIPHER Consortium and the GALLANT programme.

SIPHER (Systems Science in Public Health and Health Economics Research) seeks to create a new framework for system science public health research that blends qualitative research, data science, (health) economics, epidemiology and macro- and micro-level systems modelling approaches. Working in collaboration with policy and practice partners, SIPHER aims to create the evidence base to underpin Wellbeing in all Policies efforts by local, regional and national governments.

GALLANT (Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation) aims to deliver a Climate Resilient City through City-University Partnership. The team use qualitative and quantitative systems science approaches to help the city move towards climate resilience whilst tackling health, social and economic inequalities, and draw heavily on ideas from Doughnut Economics and Wellbeing Economy work. 

I am interested in using a complex systems lens in order to understand the relationship between evidence and policy in public health and climate change-related topics.