I teach Social and Health Psychology, Qualitative Research Methods and Counselling Skills and Theory. I am the course lead for our MSc Psychology (Hong Kong) and Psychology liaison tutor for  BA (Hons) Education with Psychology and Counselling. I am involved in a range of health-focused research using qualitative and mixed methods. I trained and worked as a nurse for 14 years before undertaking my PhD and starting my career in academia. Current projects and papers lie in the areas of chronic illness, health applications of virtual reality, and critical approaches to Health Psychology. I am currently undertaking a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. 

During my studies I actually became more interested in the social psychological applications of technology and began to specialise in online communication. My undergraduate dissertation examined the use of memetic devices in online communities as a form of affiliative behaviour.

I completed my PhD at Sheffield Hallam in 2011 in which I examined the effect of technology such as Facebook on the way that we manage our social relationships. From Sheffield Hallam I worked at the Lincoln Social Computer Research Centre (LiSC), with whom I maintain strong collaborative links. My initial work with LiSC made use of behaviour associated with online social network sites applied to sleep therapy, and I have recently collaborated with colleagues in LiSC to look at the way social technology is used in the end of life process.I have been teaching at Sheffield Hallam in some capacity since 2007, and took up a permanent lectureship in Psychology in September 2014.