Senior Research Fellow, based in Peninsula Medical School and Peninsula Dental School, working as part of the Centre for Applied Medical Education and Healthcare Workforce Research. 

I lead the CAMERa research group's professional regulation research theme.

My research crosses multiple disciplines including health policy, health services research, and clinical education. I am a qualitative social scientist, and I design, lead and collaborate across a range of study types including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies, and systematic, narrative and realist reviews.

My current and recent research centres on:

• The identification and management of concerns about health professionals' conduct and behaviour, including regulatory fitness to practise procedures and organisational performance management processes.
• The utility and value of regulatory datasets for supporting quality, safety and learning in healthcare.
• Challenges to healthcare professionals' wellbeing.
• Professional migration and the challenges it presents to national regulatory systems.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for healthcare professionals and health regulation.
• Medical revalidation and appraisal processes.
• Sociology of professions.

I am Deputy Chair of the Plymouth Internal Ethics Review Committee (PIERC). 

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy/AdvanceHE
• British Sociological Association - Medical Sociology group (BSA MedSoc)
• Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
• International Network for Health Workforce Education (INHWE)

Editorial board, BMC Health Services Research

Advisory network, NIHR Clinical Education Research Incubator

I am happy to supervise postgraduate students (PGR & PGT) whose topics relate to my research interests in the healthcare workforce, professional regulation and clinical education, or involve the use of qualitative research methods.

Current PhD supervision:

Aya Al-Harbawee, 'Professional support services for dentists: a modified realist approach.' (Director of Studies)

Matthew Griggs, 'Cultural perceptions of prehospital care in Nepal: an analysis of the perceived barriers to providing and accessing emergency medical care.' (Director of Studies)

Ross Raymond-Jones, 'Remediating Professionalism Lapses in Undergraduate Medical Education.' (co-supervisor)

Rebecca Glanville, 'Predicting success in dental students from admissions data.' (co-supervisor)

Module Lead - CLE721DL Research Methods

BMBS SSU group facilitator 
MClinEd dissertation supervision