Behaviour change for safer, better healthcare.
I study how people and organisations change, and turn that evidence into safer healthcare, with particular expertise in realist methods. Based at the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration, University of Birmingham.
Research Fellow II Deputy Lead, Pathways & Culture · Co-Lead, Academic Career Development
Research funding
Including £300k as Principal Investigator and £1.75m as Co-Investigator.
First-author papers since 2018
H-index of 16; first-author citation impact more than double the field average.
Policy citations vs world average
Cited in NICE guidance, UK Parliament evidence and OECD reports (SciVal).
Key Highlights
Four programmes of research
Explore my main research projects — each illustrated card below is clickable and links to a full page of publications, grants and impact.
Understanding and reducing unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff
From realist evidence to national studies, practical guidance and safer NHS cultures.
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How, when and why inter-organisational collaboration in the NHS works
Explaining how trust, confidence and context shape collaborative performance.
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Building a safety net for earlier diagnosis of lung cancer
Strengthening follow-up pathways for people with incidentally found pulmonary nodules.
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Methodological innovations across realist methods and behavioural science
Making programme theories more precise and rigorous synthesis fast enough for policy.
View project →Career timeline
From PhD to Principal Investigator
Click any year to explore milestones
- Appointed Co-Lead for Academic Career Development, NIHR Midlands PSRC
- NHS Race and Health Observatory Podcast — watch Race and Health Matters
- The Realist Lens podcast, Episode 36 — behavioural science meets realist research
- Published typology paper in BMC Health Services Research
- NIHR internship award with Naureen Ali (Co-lead, £8k)
- Line-managing researchers and co-supervising PhD students
- Building online Implementation Science CPD course with Dr Laura Kudrna
Teaching case study
From live seminar to open online course
A deep-dive into how I co-built an Implementation Science CPD course — and the collaboration, convening and platform-building skills behind it.
Building the Implementation Science Masterclass CPD Course
View case study →How I lead
From Chief Investigator of an NHS clinical trial during my PhD, to sole research fellow delivering two NIHR projects on time, to co-leading academic career development in the PSRC, line-managing researchers and supervising PhD and master's students. I believe in robust project management, mentoring the next generation of researchers, and putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the forefront of everything I do.
Problems I solve
From unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff to missed follow-up of lung cancer patients, I specialise in changing human behaviour in complex healthcare contexts. I combine realist methods, behavioural science, and qualitative and quantitative research to turn intractable problems into actionable programme theories and practical guidance.
My research approach →