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- Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Health Studies
- Arts and Sciences (BASc)
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I have practised as an addiction-specialist pharmacist, community pharmacist and worked in public health. Previously I was a Post-doctoral Research Pharmacist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London. I’m the Deputy Chair of the Royal Society for Public Health Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group. I founded and lead the Health and Arts Research Initiative (HARI) and co-lead the Neurodiversity In/& Creative Research Network. I also lead the international Arts in Pharmacy Special Interest Group.
Qualifications: BSc Pharmacy (Hons), MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FHEA
Professional affiliations:
Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH)
Professional memberships:
•Deputy Chair of the Royal Society for Public Health - Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group
•Britain Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)
•Architects for Health
•International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol and Other Drugs (INEBRIA)
Current research collaborators:
•Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation (TPO) Nepal
•Prime Nepal, Chitwan
•School of Health Sciences, City, University of London
•Department of Health Sciences, University of York
•Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London
•Addictions Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London
My research involves co-designing and assessing alcohol interventions to reduce problems in high- and low-income countries. I’m applying 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.
I lead on modules BASC0055 The Art and Science of Public Health for BASc. BASC0052 Research Methods in Arts and Sciences for the MASc in Creative Health. I also teach health and research related topics for other modules on the BASc and MASc programmes. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
JUN-2021 | Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Health Studies | UCL Arts and Sciences | University College London, United Kingdom |
JAN-2018 – JUN-2021 | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | Pharmacy | University of Reading, United Kingdom |
MAY-2015 – JAN-2018 | Post-doctoral Research Pharmacist | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience | King's College London, United Kingdom |
2008 – 2010 | Specialist Pharmacist | Public Health Directorate | NHS Lambeth, London, United Kingdom |
2003 – 2008 | Addiction Specialist Pharmacist | Addiction and Offender Care Directorate (AOCD) | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL), United Kingdom |