After graduating from Manchester medical school, I worked in a variety of medical and public health junior doctor positions in the North West of England and Wellington New Zealand.  These were all enjoyable, but I realised none could provide the balance of clinical experience, research and public health that I desired, hence my decision to return to my home territory of Norfolk to complete general practice training.  

My academic career developed after qualification as a GP. Shortly after qualifying I completed a self-funded Masters in Clinical Education. The results of my dissertation, a qualitative study about developing professional identity during the transition to qualifying as a GP, were published in Education for Primary Care. Following my Masters I retained an interest in research, collaborating with colleagues around the country.  I conducted and published the results of a national survey about the experience of early career educators, and as a member of the RCGP (Royal College of General Practice) Junior International Committee I ran and analysed data from an international focus group on the topic of generalist practice - our results featured in the analysis of a wider body of published work on Expert Generalism. My skills in academic writing were further developed through over 5 years of writing and editing the RCGP’s journal for Associates in Training, InnovAiT, in roles as Junior and Deputy Editor.

I am currently a member of the Public Health and Primary Care Research Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA), where I have been a CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research) East of England GP Research Fellow and now have a role developing a training package for a future research project. I also retain my clinical work as a partner in general practice for 3 sessions a week. 

• GP Research Fellow, UEA, Norwich, 2013 –
• Associate GP Tutor and Honorary Senior Lecturer UEA, Norwich, 2008 - 
• GP Partner, Norwich, Norfolk, 2009 - 
• Salaried GP, Norwich, Norfolk, 2008 - 2009
• General Practice Vocational Training, Norwich, Norfolk, 2007 - 2008
• Senior House Officer Senior House Officer inPublic Health Medicine, High Peak & Dales Primary Care Trust, Derbyshire, 2006 - 2007
• Senior House Officer in A&E, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire, 2005 - 2006
• Second Year House Surgeon, Wellington, New Zealand, 2004 - 2005
• House Officer, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire, 2003 - 2004

• Masters in Clinical Education (Distinction), University of East Anglia, 2011
• Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2008 (made a Fellow in 2014)
• MBChB (Hons), University of Manchester, 2003
• BSc (Hons) International Health, University College London, 2002

I am a GP Associate Tutor and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Norwich Medical School.  I have been a Problem Based Learning tutor and Communication Skills tutor in the Medical School, and I have a particular interest in patient-centred communication and shared decision making.  I have also been involved in training GP trainees in communication skills.

For several years I have been involved in the assessment of students as an OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) examiner and I also interview prospective medical students for entry into the School.