Jennie is a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is working on the NIHR funded study 'Care of people at the end of their lives in the rural and coastal communities of the Southwest Peninsula of England: A participatory realist evaluation'.

Jennie is a qualitative social psychologist with a background in group interaction, creative facilitation, diagnosis, health and wellbeing. Jennie’s PhD, part of the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Exploring Diagnosis’, examined how clinicians make decisions about the diagnosis of autism spectrum conditions. 

Prior to her current post she undertook a participatory evaluation of the Ilfraacombe Poverty Truth Commission with the University of Exeter; has worked on an AHRC funded study exploring the role of community assets in health (CAN-DO); and on a study (the SFGC study) aiming to understand what works about a child protection pathway re-design in partnership with practitioners in children's social care. She has also been an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Relational Health Team at the University of Exeter and a Research Associate at the University of Bristol researching how clinicians manage antibiotic prescribing in out-of-hours practice (the OPEN project).