Enterprise, engagement & impact
Research that changes
what the NHS does.
My publications have been cited in Parliamentary Committee Reports and informed work by the OECD and NICE. Frameworks and guidance I have developed are used widely across the NHS to effect practice.
I have consistently focused on generating impact from my research, including being awarded a commercialisation fellowship at the University of Surrey which enabled me to produce a guide for healthcare staff to reduce unprofessional behaviours based on my research — downloaded over 800 times in the first month.
A framework I developed to aid inter-organisational collaboration in the NHS enabled one NHS Mental Health Provider Collaborative to "reach a consensus that we'd failed to achieve for probably 10 months."
Highlights
Principal achievements
- 2024Published guide for addressing unprofessional behaviours between healthcare staff — 800+ downloads in the first month
- 2023Delivered workshops with NHS Trusts, including Great Western NHS FT, on reducing unprofessional behaviours between healthcare staff
- 2021Presentation to Nuffield Trust & consultants to inform development of Place-Based Partnerships in the NHS
- Sep 2021Developed a survey based on a realist programme theory to evaluate the collaboration-readiness of a Mental Health Provider Collaborative in Birmingham, delivering results in a workshop
Activities
Engagement & impact activities
- 2026Invited panellist and speaker, NIHR Postdoctoral Researcher Day"Thriving in transition" — Manchester, 29 January 2026
- 2026Organised, designed and delivered SafetyNet Organisational Culture working group meeting~30 attendees, central Birmingham
- 2025Invited podcast for CHEST journal about accepted systematic review
- 2025Invited panellist at NHS Employers "Disability Summit"Focused on psychological safety
- 2024 — nowMultiple blogs published in the PSRC / ARC News Blog
- Dec 2024Invited to House of Lords "National State of Patient Safety 2024 Report launch"With Lord Ara Darzi
- 2024Member of Safety-NET Safety-Equity Research Collaboration (SERC) and organisational culture working groups
- 2024Invited speaker at University Hospitals Birmingham "Freedom to Speak Up" dayAlongside Prof Mary Dixon-Woods and others
- 2024Member of HSR UK organising committee and abstract reviewer
- 2024Presentation to "Big Coffee Break" about unprofessional behaviours project~200 HR/OD NHS employee attendees
- 2024Presentation on unprofessional behaviour research to NHS human resources professionalsFrimley ICS and wider, ~20 attendees
- 2023First-author publication selected as a BMC Series Highlight
- 2023YQSR Seminar — findings from a realist review of unprofessional behaviours
- 2022Chair of "Culture" session and abstract reviewer, Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare (OBHC) conferenceBirmingham
- 2022Invited guest, Sausage of Science Podcast (Human Biology Association)
- 2021EHMA Conference presentation and IHPO Seminar SeriesHow and why do inter-organisational collaborations drive performance improvements?
- 2021Blog: Building trust and faith — how can we make inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare a success?University of Birmingham department website
- 2021Blog at the Sedentary Behaviour Research Network on toolkit paper publication
- 2020Cardiff Health Organisation and Policy Studies SeminarDelivered virtually on research findings to date
- 2020Guest lecture and seminar, Health, Illness and Society courseAnthropology department, Durham University — sedentary behaviour applied to health
- 2019PANINI Project Co-Created Research Conference — organiser, chair and presenterBirmingham, ~80 older members of the public
- 2018PANINI Public Engagement Event — organiser and delivererAmsterdam, ~200 older members of the public · Event video
- 2018Sit Less, Move More event & presentation; PANINI Public Engagement Event (poster)Birmingham, ~140 older members of the public combined
- 2017Age Well — Meet the Researcher event (poster)Birmingham, ~200 older members of the public