My research career as an academic children’s nurse began with the completion of my PhD (2007), having previous undertaken my MSc part time while in Clinical practice. My PhD involved a phenomenological exploration of transition to motherhood and returning to work. Methodologically my expertise is in qualitative although I have been involved in projects of mixed methods. I have been fortunate to be involved in a variety of research projects while at the university for example with teenage Mums, children in care and young offenders. I led the development of a Universal Family Assessment tool with the Early Help in Early Years Project and we have recently published this project. I secured National Lottery Funding to create a centre for families in my local community which has been completed. We have recently completed the evaluation of the Charnwood project which involved Early Help for Vulnerable families. I am currently project lead for the Barnett Schools Resilience Project and involved in the qualitative aspects.

Mrs Hadiza Azi - The impact of culture on maternal health service utilisation among women of reproductive age 15 - 49 years in Bauchi state, North-Eastern Nigeria: An ethnographic approach.

Mrs Deborah Baborah - Exploring health literacy in the general population and health care providors in South-West Nigeria.

Mrs Karen Graves - The impact of a New Model of Mentorship on Nurse education: implications for practice.

Mr Joshua Ige - An exploration into how forensic Mental Health service users experience work.

Mr Stephen Zingwe - The lived experience of career progression of NHS BME senior managers/executives in the South West of England and greater London: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study.

Mr Francis Beckett - A cognitive anthropological inquiry into the embodied mascutinities of men who nurse.

Mrs Sarah Ibordor - How the creation and interactions of online identites impacts the well-being of mothers with social media.

Completions:

Dr Judith Knight - Occupational Identity changes in later life.

Dr Jude Ominyi - Exploring evidence-based practice implementation in Nigerian Acute Care Context: a collective case study.

Dr Deborah Pugh - Listening to different voicies in families using alternative and augmentative communication.

Dr Alison Tresidder - The perceptions and expeiences of being diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis.