I am an Associate Professor in Psychology, and lead the MSc/MPsych Clinical Psychology Programmes.

My research aims to understand the psychosocial processes which underlie mental and physical health outcomes in women and, ideally, to use my research findings to influence public health policy and practice.

I employ both quantitative surveys and qualitative methods, and am particularly interested in the role of trauma, gendered health pathways, and psychobehavioural factors such as self-silencing, hypervigilance, stress and coping. Allied with this, I also research relational trauma and attachment processes and how these influence women's lives and health across the lifespan.

Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society (Chartered Psychologist) and Member of BPS Division of Health Psychology

Member of International Society of Behavioral Medicine and UK Society of Behavioral Medicine 

Committee Member of British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID)

Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy 

I currently teach the following: 

PSYC525/715: Individual Differences

PSYC603: Introduction to Forensic Psychology

PSYC733/766: Thematic analysis

PSYC764: Social determinants of health