About

I've created this blog as a space where I can share accessible updates from my research along with short summaries of any publications. 

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I'm coming to the end of a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences (2022-2025) where I've been looking at how inequalities get framed for action across different sectors and the consequent implications for action. A draft version of the creative output from this project can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15766578. I'm in the process of writing up the papers from this project and will share these as soon as they are ready!

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As part of my PhD research (2016-2019), which was funded by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast, I explored how health system actors make sense of the idea of working 'upstream' to tackle social inequalities in health. The publications from this research can be found on my Google Scholar page.

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I'm clinically trained by background, starting out as a physiotherapist before moving into public health research, and the politics of health! So this blog is really an archive of how I've come to recognise the limits of my own thinking, and challenge myself to engage with a broader set of ideas about the nature of the challenge around health and wider inequalities and what needs to change. Since May 2022, I have also been an elected member for Preston City Council and this experience has further shaped my thinking and my research. ​And as of May 2025, I've been working with the NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration at Blackpool Council, affectionally known locally as Blackpool Researching Together.

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