I was awarded my PGCert in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education from the University of Oxford in 2022 and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I am a module co-ordinator for the Systematic Reviews module of the University of Oxford's MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care and the Health Behaviour Change short course. 

I supervise undergraduate, MSc and DPhil students and provide pastoral care for Kellogg College students as a college advisor. My current DPhil students are carrying out research into the potential impact of smoking cessation treatments on socioeconomic equalities, and culturally tailoring smoking cessation interventions.

My salary is funded by the NIHR, Cancer Research UK, the NIH and the University of Oxford (teaching). I have no affiliation with the tobacco or e-cigarette industry.

My research is internationally recognised and focuses on tobacco addiction and smoking cessation interventions. I am lead of the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OxTAG) based within the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. I was awarded my doctorate, examining new approaches to smoking cessation (smoking reduction and nicotine preloading) by the University of Birmingham in 2012, and have worked in Primary Care research since 2007.

I am currently PI/co-PI of a number of projects:

• TRIDENT: an NIHR programme grant, developing and investigating a brief offer of an e-cigarette, and a continued support programme given by mental health professionals (MHPs) to people with serious mental illness (SMI) who smoke and have declined help to quit.
• SAVINGS: an NIHR-funded RCT, investigating providing opportunistic brief advice on smoking and an e-cigarette to people who smoke who are accessing financial support services. This is part of a wider programme of work. investigating how best to help people in financial difficulties and/or in lower socio economic groups to stop smoking. So far, this has included a scoping review, two service evaluations (one within social housing and another within Citizens Advice) and a project using stakeholder engagement designing and piloting new interventions in social housing.
• Two Living Cochrane systematic reviews of 'Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation' and 'Interventions for Vaping Cessation'. More information on the project is available here, and a podcast (Let's Talk E-cigarettes) exploring our findings can be accessed here, as well as through Apple podcasts and Spotify. 

I am also a co-applicant on the Center for the assessment of tobacco regulations (CAsToR) TCORS 3.0 awarded for 5 years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2023. I am leading the work being carried out in Oxford conducting evidence synthesis to inform modelling being carried out by the wider team. More information on this is available here.