I am an Associate Professor at the Social Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education. As an academic, who has also practiced until 2019 as an NHS allied health practitioner, I have a distinctive clinical/research profile. I am primarily a qualitative researcher but I have over 20 years’ experience working on both large and small-scale mixed method evaluations in health and education.  In particular I have applied mixed method approaches to the design and delivery of complex intervention trials, to inform policy and practice. My health research has included studies of; antenatal and maternity care; neonatal care; parenting; postnatal depression; teenage pregnancy; domestic violence; homelessness; health education for young people with diabetes as well as a range of programmes to improve the health, well-being and life chances of disadvantaged young people. Much of my research utilises particaption and co-production methods. I am currently trial manager on a large NIHR funded programme of research of community health interventions focused on antenatal care (The REACH programme based at City University London.  I am also currently providing qualitative research and PPI expertise on the neoWonder study which aims to improve the lifelong health and wellbeing of preterm babies by using routine data to evaluate the long-term impact of neonatal interventions neoWONDER). My education research has included RCTs of education interventions for the Education Endowment Foundation: the use of handheld feedback devices; the teaching of foreign languages; the impact of chess lessons in primary schools.  My research has informed national and local policy and practice.

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• Japan