My public health research is applying creative and participatory approaches to reduce alcohol harm and promote mental wellbeing in high- in low-income countries. I’m applying creative Participatory Action Research and Experience-based Co-design  methods to optimise community pharmacy spaces (health architecture). I am the Research Lead and the Postgraduate Research Tutor at the Arts and Sciences Department (UASc).

Current research:

• Leading an interdisciplinary arts-based research to understand how the physical and social spaces within community pharmacies are experienced by pharmacy patients and staff. This study will examine how the architecture of pharmacies may affect engagement with current and future pharmacy health services to co-produce a community pharmacy design guide (Pharmacy Research UK Leverhulme Fellowship, Principal Investigator, awarded Dec 2018-ongoing).
• Leading a research programme using creative and participatory approaches to reduce alcohol harm and promote mental wellbeing in Nepal in collaboration with 'Creative Nepal: Arts-Health Community'. The research will examine how community and cultural assets can be effectively harnessed for future evaluation and implementation in low income countries (past funder GCRF).
  
• Leading a scoping review of creative health education (Arts Council England, Principal Investigator, awarded Nov 2021-ongoing).
  
• The findings from my PhD were used to inform the five-year NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research funded study (commenced Jan 2018), Community pharmacy: Highlighting Alcohol use in Medication Appointments (CHAMP-1). This research programme aims to co-produce an alcohol intervention, within medication appointments, with the pharmacy profession and patients (Co-investigator, awarded Jan 2018-ongoing).

PhD candidates:

Prospective PhD candidates are welcome to email me their research proposal related to any of the following areas:

• Creative and participatory research approaches in public health and mental wellbeing (UK and Global)
• Multi-modal approaches to reducing alcohol harm (UK and Global Health)
• Co-designing and evaluating health environments (health architecture)
  
• Health service research (intervention design, evaluation, and implementation)
• Holistic systems approach to health service and social care research