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I am a Vice Chancellor's Fellow in Public Policy at ���ϲ�����. I serve on Northumbria's Disability Equality Steering Group and on the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing's (SWECW) Ethics Review College. I lead SWECW's Disability, Neurodiversity, Mental Distress and Lived Experience Expert Group. I am co-ordinating work within the department to publish the underpinning research produced by the Common Sense Policy Group on Beveridge-style transformative public policies.

My work focuses on inequalities and social determinants of health, particularly the impact of work and welfare and especially in relation to disabled people. This includes understanding health impact, economic feasibility, public acceptability and the development of narratives capable of persuading opponents of evidence-based policy. A core project within this has been my examination of the public health case for . My recent book, , co-authored with colleagues from the , provides a comprehensive policy platform that is affordable, feasible and popular with the public in the tradition of the Beveridge Report.

My work has often depended on deploying innovative research and communication methods to include and amplify the voices of underrepresented groups. This has been supported by more than £1.4m in research funding.

My background as a research leader in the third sector, which involved senior leadership team membership and management of large research budgets, means that I have a fundamental commitment to achieving impact in my work. Over the past nine years, these partnerships have achieved impact in creating sector-wide standards, shaping organisational approaches and influencing national policy. In the third sector, I used my report – which identified a fear among a large proportion of disabled people of being more active in case they were to lose disability benefits – to create policy proposals and lobby Government with national partners to remove such disincentives.

My work has been covered by the , , , , , , , , , , , and . I recently provided 2024 UK General Election analysis for BBC Radio Newcastle and Tees both and the.