My research concerns the respectful care of older people.  I am particularly interested in participative or collaborative approaches to research and have recently been carrying out research into the organisational arrangements of care of older people using this approach. I also research in the area of children and young people and mental well-being. (This This work led on to a study examining organisational culture in the residential care of older people.)

Previous research has examined community interventions involving collaboration between multiple services and agencies.   

• In the first of these, SPR:OCKET, Broadland District Council funded a year’s research project to inform the local, multi-agency community safety agenda.  The research team first mapped out offending across the Broadland area, and from this data constructed a framework to sample case studies.  The case studies revealed issues and processes that supported pathways out of offending behaviour, and threw light on how these could be improved or strengthened.  
• The EVISSTA study examined a multi-agency strategy to reduce on-street sex-working. 

I researched the impact of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and also how this may be affected by social inequalities.  This project was developed in close collaboration with a large voluntary organisation for adults living with CFS/ME, and took the perspective of adults with CFS from various social backgrounds.

• Lecturer in Occupational Therapy 2003 to present
• Primary Mental Health Worker 2002-2003
• Head Occupational Therapist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2002
• Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist 1997-2002
• Senior Occupational Therapist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health 1990-1997 
• Occupational Therapist in social services with people with disabilities 1987 - 1990
• Senior Occupational Therapist, adult mental health 1986-1987
• Occupational Therapist in adult mental health acute admissions and community 1985 -1986 

• Doctorate in Education, UEA, 2005
• PG Cert HEP, UEA, 2007
• MA Applied Research in Education UEA, 1996
• Dip COT Dorset House Oxford, 1985