Lisa is social scientist who specialises in qualitative research methods. She is the qualitative research lead and public involvement co-lead on the National Institute for Health and Care (NIHR) funded eSupport programme. This aims to develop and test a digital support package for stopping smoking in pregnancy. Lisa also coordinates the UEA Addiction Research Public Involvement Panel, which she established to help match public contributors with researchers working in the field of addiction research. She also helped with setting up the Citizens Academy at UEA and currently acts as the Lifespan Health research theme representative. 

Lisa has worked on several NIHR funded research projects in the field of smoking cessation, including the N-READY programme which aims to improve the use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation in pregnancy. She has extensive experience carrying out research in both NHS and community settings and has a keen interest in patient and public involvement, having started her research career in the third sector.

Lisa graduated with a BS (Hons) in Psychosocial Studies from the University of East Anglia and went on to complete an MSc in Social Research Methods at the Open University. In 2017, she gained her PhD in Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Her research aimed to develop a greater understanding of teenagers who have more than one pregnancy using a mixed methods research approach.

Lisa is particularly interested in smoking cessation, sexual health, qualitative research methods and public and patient involvement in research.

I teach qualitative research methods, patient and public involvement, and tobacco and smoking control to undergraduate and postgraduate students.  

UEA teaching programmes I currently contribute to:

East of England HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme