I currently run my own evaluation consultancy, working on evaluations with a wide range of organisations including those in the third sector, NGOs, local Government, and private companies. I take a collaborative and person-centred approach to all my work, aiming to upskill all the organisations I work with in the process of generating evidence of the impact of their work. Recent projects include the development of a Standard Evaluation Framework for outdoor interventions as part of the UK Government Environment Improvement Plan, and the evaluation of a national programme run by NHS England to embed health-psychologist driven behaviour change techniques into workforce transformation.

I work as an evaluation associate with Future Care Capital, a third sector organisation focused on facilitating and leading the beneficial transformation of health and care provision. I lead their evaluation service, supporting the generation and use of evidence on the impact of novel healthcare interventions, such as the use of AI-driven technologies in the identification of 'at risk' patients in the community, as well as the efficacy of the provision of models of healthcare, including ways to provide long-Covid services in the UK.

I am currently an Honorary Professor in the Centre for Health Service Studies (CHSS). CHSS is a centre of research excellence which undertakes high quality research into a wide range of health and social care systems and health and care services issues at local, national and international levels. I work in a range of fields including the application of team science approaches to address the problems of managing patients with multi-morbidity as well as the development of academic evaluation teams to support the evaluation of local government health-related delivery.

I work as an Associate with Health Innovation East supporting the projects being undertaken by the Evaluation Team. The team is evaluating healthcare and public health interventions being delivered throughout the UK although there is a particular focus on the Eastern region. Example projects include the evaluation of models of support for neurodivergent children and their families in the UK.

Since leaving UEA as an employee in 2021 I was awarded the role of Honorary Professor which has allowed me to retain my affiliation with the organisation.

I spent 27 years as an academic at the University of East Anglia, starting as a Lecturer in 1995 and becoming a full Professor in 2011. At the time I left in 2021, I was Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Norwich Medical School. My time at UEA was interdisciplinary, initially being based in the School of Environmental Sciences, before moving to Norwich Medical School in 2012. Whilst there I led a large and prolific research group of research associates and graduate students, winning over £25 million of research funding as lead or co-applicant and publishing over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles. I currently hold an (h) index score on Scopus of 63, which places me in the top 1% most cited academics globally. I hold keen interests in policy and delivery and as an academic have worked closely with a range of key organisations including the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) as a member of the Public Health Research Funding Committee, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as an expert topic member involved in the development of several guidance documents, and Cancer Research UK where I was Vice Chair of the Tobacco Advisory Group. At the invitation of the Chief Medical Officer, I co-authored the current UK Government physical activity guidelines for adults, and in 2007 I was lead author of the UK Government Foresight: Tackling Obesity Future Choices obesogenic environments evidence review report.

The vision of C3 Collaborating for Health is to imagine a world where people are not dying from preventable chronic disease because they find it easier to live healthy lives. I worked as a Research and Evaluation Associate with C3 and ran an evaluation support service for them. Rather than undertake full evaluations, I worked alongside organisations looking for support in evaluating the delivery of their own services. My projects included, for example, work with local government teams to upskill them with simple evaluation approaches such as the production of logic models to provide a framework to understand the impact of the programmes team members were responsible for.

After leaving the University of East Anglia, I spent 18 months in local government, working at Norfolk County Council. Spanning the Public Health and Environment teams, I worked as an Expert Advisor on the use of research and evidence in the design, delivery, and evaluation of programmes. My role was bespoke and was introduced for me out of a recognition of the need to generate more evidence to guide the commissioning and delivery of services. I worked across directorates embedding evaluation practice into a range of programmes including road safety, active travel, the fire service, and the museums and arts. One legacy of my period there is the fact that the public health team is now a full-time host of one of only a handful of National Institute for Health Research funded Local Authority Research Practitioners.