Full-time
Main duties: Contributing to the development of a Question Bank for International Household Survey Network. Developing a resource database clarifying indicators and concepts that are used to measure a number of areas, such as child health and education in developing countries. The project is commissioned by the OECD and the World Bank.

Part-time
Main duties: Teaching Qualitative Research Methods for 2nd year psychology undergraduates. This included planning and carrying out tutorials, assignment development & marking and one-to-one advisory meetings with students.

Full-time
Main duties: Undertaking a qualitative research project on child protection as principal investigator. The project will contribute to paediatricians’ communication skills training. It involved interviewing parents where child abuse has been suspected, data analysis and dissemination of results. The post has involved on-going liaison with paediatricians, the government, the public and child welfare professionals.

Full-time
Main duties: Designing research tools, conducting interviews with vulnerable refugees, analysing data and writing up a report as part of a longitudinal research project. Informing policy on findings including reports and presentations. Contributing as a team member, including consulting the team on the use of NVivo.

Part-time
Main duties: Teaching Social Theory for 2nd year sociology undergraduates. This included planning and carrying out tutorials, essay marking and one-to-one advisory meetings with students.

Main duties: The project studied teenage children's attitudes to smoking and smoking related behaviour. This included both self-completed questionnaires and focus groups in schools. I carried out the research independently, with the support of a local primary care team. The results were used for NHS Stop Smoking practice in East Surrey area.

Voluntary
Main duties: I conducted qualitative, in-depth, one-to-one interviews on young men’s attitudes to their lives and future prospects. This small-scale community project was commissioned by a Youth Club in Manchester and part of the data was used for my Master’s Dissertation. The results were implemented in youth work.