Becky is a Senior Research Associate within the Centre for Academic Child Health and is passionate about using qualitative research to find out ‘what works’ from people with lived experience. Guided by her Social Work background, Becky’s research focuses on the development, experience and evaluation of health interventions.

Her work is sometimes mixed-methods, though mostly qualitative, and involves research with people who are living with a particular phenomena, listening to their experience, learning from their knowledge, and then working to develop and evaluate a beneficial intervention. This often involves meaningful engagement with underserved groups, sensitive interviewing skills and the coproduction of health interventions through creative methods.

Becky’s research topics have included suicide prevention, adolescent mental health, dermatological conditions, covid mitigation in schools, infant mortality and baby sleep safety. She works across several projects and has extensive experience as a project manager, study coordinator and as a researcher.  Becky’s responsibilities include study set-up and management, protocol and study material creation, data collection, analysis and dissemination. Her most recent areas of focus have been Intervention Development, Feasibility Trials, Behaviour Change Theory and Realist Evaluations.

Including service users / consumers as ‘experts by experience’ is extremely important to Becky and she advocates for the involvement of patients and the public at all stages of the research process. Becky has expertise in health and social care research and qualitative methods. She is driven by a desire to better support the health and wellbeing of people facing challenges and an interest in using research to influence policy and practice. She has published several articles and presented at national and international conferences.