My research involves co-designing and assessing alcohol interventions to reduce problems in high- and low-income countries. I’m applying creative Participatory Action Research and Experience-based Co-design to optimise community pharmacy spaces (health architecture).

Current research:

• Leading an interdisciplinary arts-based research to understand how the physical and social spaces within community pharmacies are experienced by pharmacy service users and staff. This study will examine how the architecture of pharmacies may affect engagement with current and future pharmacy health services and co-produce a community pharmacy design guide (Pharmacy Research UK Leverhulme Fellowship, Principal Investigator, awarded Dec 2018-ongoing).
• Leading a scoping review of creative health training and Higher Education curriculum of health and social care in the UK (Arts Council England, Principal Investigator, awarded Nov 2021-ongoing)
  

• Co-leading research to co-design with local communities and stakeholders a culturally engaging alcohol intervention to reduce harm in Nepal. Research will explore how community and cultural  assets can be harnessed for future evaluation in a low-income country (GCRF, Co-Principal Investigator, awarded Nov 2020-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, and evaluate in a definitive RCT (Co-investigator, awarded Jan 2018-ongoing).
  

PhD candidates:Prospective PhD candidates are welcome to email me directly with their research proposal.