I am a Research Fellow at Teesside University, and am currently also working as the South Tees Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Community Research and Ethics Lead. The South Tees HDRC is a collaboration between Teesside University and Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland councils (in conjunction with other local stakeholders) looking at addressing health inequalities and inequity through research.

Prior to joining Teesside University, I have worked in a number of settings, working with charities to improve access to Higher Education for under-represented groups and within SEN education.

I completed my PhD in 2015 in Philosophy, with an ESRC funded project looking at the implications of genetic research on the autonomy and agency of young people in the U.K.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of my research, I have a wide range of research interests.

Perhaps the most prominent of these interests is in community-led research and Ethics and Bioethics: where I have interests ranging from moral judgement in Autistic individuals to life-limiting conditions and the nature of grief, as well as the theory and practice of improving Research Ethics both within and outside academia.

I have researched extensively in the fields of genomics and neuro-ethics, specifically behavioural genetics and the philosophy of psychiatry/mental disorder. I have also conducted research on the notions of autonomy and agency (developing my own theory of developed agency) and how it relates to young people, as well as the philosophy of childhood more generally.

I have an interest in public health and the philosophy of public health, children's rights, jurisprudence/feminist jurisprudence and empirical bioethics/philosophy, and during my PhD research I devised a process (and corresponding theory) for appraising the moral sophistication, consistency and agency of individuals. I am also interested in the Philosophy of Psychology.

My primary interests are based on the notion that research should benefit people as much as possible, and this is why I enjoy engaging in co-produced research putting communities and the voice of people at the heart of the research process. I am especially passionate about addressing the contemporary and historical inequalities and discrimination that are faced by the Rroma community.

I am currently a mentor for Minorities and Philosophy UK, and have written an article for their online blog looking at mental health within academia.