My teaching is constantly updated by my research through which I actively seek to engage with policymaking. As a public administration educator, I see the study of organisations and technology as vitally important to public understanding of complex, technical processes and how these intersect with people’s everyday lives. In classroom teaching and online, I encourage students to draw on their own backgrounds and experiences in order to explore, challenge and collaboratively develop innovative ways in which to understand and intervene in policy processes. When teaching public organisation and management I use case studies, examples from current affairs and invite guest speakers with frontline experience of managing services to come in and speak to students, in order to bring contemporary priorities and concerns to life. I teach research methods in a range of settings and at a range of levels from undergraduate to PhD level. In 2012, I was awarded the University’s award for excellence in postgraduate supervision. I aim to ensure everyone I teach develops an interest and enthusiasm for designing, taking part in and sharing research.

I teach on the BSc Social Policy and Practice and coordinate postgraduate modules in Public Administration. I feel extremely fortunate to work with the students who come to us from local organisations and from around the world to study on this course. We learn about public management, leadership, policy analysis, community engagement and research methods together. I aim to support all my students to develop and pursue research agendas that are important to them in terms of their own background and professional aspirations.

In my current research, I contribute to academic and public understanding of how technology, data and information can be used in organisational and policy contexts to support the interests of citizens, communities and public service professionals. I am co-investigator on the Horizon 2020 project EmERGE which involves partners from five EU countries and aims to develop a smartphone application to support people living with HIV. I am also academic partner to the , Patient Safety Collaborative. I have studied a range of health information technologies including electronic patient records, data dashboards and visualisation tools, and mobile phone technologies in a range of different health settings.

In addition, I carry out research with Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations, policymakers, commissioners and infrastructure organisations who aim to take action and provide services for people in need of support. I work closely with the Community University Partnership Programme who are project partners in the Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Partnership. Findings from this project have been included in 映客直播 and Hove’s Social Value Framework and Guide and in the City’s Fairness Commission Report. In a related project, I also contributed an Analysis of Public Voice from qualitative data generated from the Fairness Commission’s public consultation which has been included in the Final Report.

My specialism is in qualitative research methods and my theoretical interests are in Science and Technology Studies in particular Actor-Network Theory and related 'practice-based' approaches, and complexity theory. I am co-investigator on an ESRC seminar series entitled in which I facilitate civil society and academic partners to pursue theoretical interests in ‘practice’.

Current research projects

• Evaluation of a Regional Memory Assessment Service. NHS South East Clinical Networks (Mental Health & Dementia) £10,000. Principal Investigator
• Warmth for wellbeing: evaluation of a multi-partner fuel poverty intervention. British Gas Energy Trust. November 2015 to April 2017. Principal Investigator
• Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series from November 2015 to October 2017 (£29,821) Co-investigator
• Evaluating mHealth technology in HIV to improve Empowerment and healthcare utilisation: Research and innovation to Generate Evidence for personalised care' (EmERGE), European Horizon 20:20 from April 2015 – March 2020 (£5,500,000) Co-investigator, Workpackage 2 Co-Design and Sociotechnical Evaluation (£352,000) Joint Principal Investigator
• PACE Setter Award for Excellence in Children and Young People’s (CYP) care: an evaluation of quality improvement programme in Primary and Community Care. Strategic Clinical Network for Maternity, Young People and Children (£13,500) from November 2015-October 2016. Principal Investigator
• Monitoring, Impact and Evaluation: making data work for communities MEI Partnership, July 2014 – ongoing
• Fairness in 映客直播 and Hove: analysing public voice Principal Investigator

Previous research projects

• Maternity Dashboard Pilot: a Regional Evaluation. Strategic Clinical Network for Maternity, Young People and Children (£5000) from Feb 2015 – May 2015).
• APPlying e-technologies to improve quality and cost effectiveness in routine HIV care. Gilead Foundation (£76,000) from March 2013 to March 2016. Co-investigator with Principal Investigator: Professor Martin Fisher.
• Community Research and Evaluation Gateway. Community University Partnership Programme, University of 映客直播 (£5000) from October 2013 to March 2014. Principal Investigator.
• Evaluation of regional innovation programme in renal services follow-on. 映客直播 and Sussex Universities Hospitals Trust (£6000) from April 2012. Principal Investigator.
• Evaluation of regional innovation programme in renal services. 映客直播 and Sussex Universities Hospitals Trust (£17,000), from April 2010 to April 2012. Co-investigator with Principal Investigator: Professor Flis Henwood.
• Systems and Complex Systems approaches in Public Policy and Practice: A Knowledge Exchange (KE) between Academics and Practitioners Economic and Social Science Research Council (£125,000) from 2009 to 2010. Co-investigator with Principal Investigator: Professor Phil Haynes.

Research centres and groups

• Social Science Policy and Research Centre

• Information Technology and Care theme, Care, Health and Wellbeing research area

• Social and Political Theory theme, Culture, Identity and Society research area