Teaching responsibilities
As an educator, I bring expertise in practice-based research, design methodologies, participatory research approaches, reflective practice, and working with patient experience. My teaching is informed by my own practice-based research in design, providing a unique and practical perspective for students.
I am responsible for mentoring and overseeing students at all levels. I deliver lectures and provide supervision for undergraduate and postgraduate students. I supervise a number of undergraduate students in their final year public engagement and neuroscience projects.
I co-lead an award winning 30-credit undergraduate module "Engaging the Public in Science," providing practical experience through public engagement projects with QMUL academics.
I currently supervise three PhD students and mentor one international PhD student. I am collaborating on a MS Society ECR fellowship award and supervise practice-led aspects of prestigious international ECTRIMS fellow research projects.
I lead the Centre for Preventive Neurology PhD Seminar Series which invites external speakers to engage students in a variety of research career pathways. I also engage with national and international healthcare professional audiences through events such as the Neurology Academy, MS Preceptorships, The MS Nurse network, and ECTRIMS teaching sessions, further disseminating my research and expertise.
I am one of the co-founders of PhD By Design alongside Maria Portugal and Bianca Elzenbaumer.
Workshops and seminars:
Invited Speaker:
Many of these are invitations to discuss my innovations in methods and outputs, and include knowledge exchange with a range of stakeholders in health, social science and design.
July 2024 MS Frontiers, Liverpool, UK. “How do we get the communication and engagement right,” as part of the MS Society Prevention Taskforce.
April 2024 Inspiring the Future of Participatory Research event. Lancaster University, UK. “Mapping practices of participation across a medical faculty.”
Feb 2024 Qualitative Health Research Network Conference, UCL, “Navigating the tensions of researching patient experience in participatory healthcare design.”
April 2023 MS for Primary Care Conference, Glasgow, UK, “Learnings from a remote upper limb rehabilitation study for people with MS.”
July 2022 Medical Adherence and Digital Health Consortium, Cambridge UK, “Digital interventions to improve adherence to Multiple Sclerosis therapies.”
Feb 2021 Roche Satellite Symposium, MS Trust conference, “Owning MS beyond COVID: what can we learn from the Patients' Perspective Study?”
Nov 2020 OpenMinds: MS digital innovation summit organized by Novartis, “Self-monitoring and management: What could the future look like for patients.”
Nov 2017 MS Trust conference, Merck Symposium, “ThinkHand”
Dec 2017 AHRC Next Generation Design Research event, Central St Martins, “Re-doing patient experience through design-led research.”
Nov 2016 Centre for Neurorehabilitation symposium, UCL, “Patient and Public Engagement.”
Jan 2015 V&A Design Salon – Evening talks, V&A London, “Re-doing patient experience through design-led research.”
Sept 2014 Design in Health Network, Royal College of Art
Sept 2014 London MS Nurse Novartis Symposium, “Patient and Public Engagement.”
Seminars and workshops:
Sept 2024 German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention conference workshop, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, “Participatory Research and Co-Creation in Health Research.’
Feb 2022 UCL Social Research Institute, “Evidence of experience.”
Feb 2022 PNU research seminar, “Engaging the public through research.”
Dec 2017 UCL Institute of Education Symposium, “Design and Health.”
Nov 2017 University of Southampton Seminar, “How design-led research can re-do the patient experience.”
July 2014 Intellectual Summer School, University of Lancaster.
May 2014 University of Dundee, “Designing patient experiences.”