Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in August 2021, I have been working as a Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Science at De Montfort and Gloucestershire University's within Paramedic Science. Prior to this I had worked as a General Nurse in Warwick and then as a Paediatric Nurse in Coventry before joining the ambulance service in the West Midlands working as an Emergency Care Practitioner. Having now completed some 30 years of NHS service I have continued to work in the Events Medical sector of practice having opportunity to work within motor sports, the equine sector and at different festivals across the UK.

I studied for my BSc (Hons) in Child Health at Manchester University. In addition I have completed three PgCert’s, One in Teaching and Higher Education at Brookes University, Oxford, the Second in Applied Health Studies (Emergency Care) at Warwick University and the Third in Health Care Simulation at Coventry University. I also hold a Diploma in Autonomous Practice from Coventry University as well as a Foundation Degree in Pre-hospital urgent and emergency care from Worcester University. I continue to be active out in practice holding both Adult Nursing, Paediatric Nursing and Paramedic qualifications. I am also a member of Health Care and Professions Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council as well as a teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

My areas of interest and research are centred around paramedic practice and simulation. Some of my focus areas in simulation is around simulation reality for paramedics, maternity care in the pre-hospital setting and reducing stress in the OSCE. These areas interest me as they are all areas both student and qualified paramedics find the most challenging. 

My specialist knowledge has led me to work with the Charity Baby Lifeline, a charity set up to promote, support and train multi-professionals in safer home and community births. Within this charity I hold the role of Paramedic Course Director for their Childbirth Emergencies in the Community course. Through this work I have been privileged to attend the House of Parliament promoting the charity to MP's. 

In 2016 to support and be part of Global Health Alliance Charity International as a Faculty member for India's First MERIT (Managing Emergencies by Rapid Intervention & Treatment} at Paras Hospital, Patna (India}, at Narayana Health City, Ban- galore (India} and India's First ALERT (Acute Life Threatening Emergencies and Treatment} at Cygnus Hospital, New Delhi with Dr Rajay Narain, Director, Global Health Alliance, UK & cardiologist at St Georges Hospital, London.

I was also part of Oxford Brookes academic team who in 2015 who participated in Turkish Paramedic Rally and International Congress in Turkey. Part of the congress was to participate in a competition alongside international delegates where the Brookes team came first place overall in the resuscitation competition.