I have worked with, researched and published about various groups including children, people with learning disability, adults and children with mental health problems and older people with and without mental health problems. I am well used to bringing a social care perspective into health settings, and my quantitative research skills enable me to appraise almost all statistical methods and results reported in research papers and grant submissions. I have also trained in systematic review methods (see later) and in the use of qualitative research methods and proprietary packages such as Nvivo.

I provide external expert peer review for research grant applications to the ESRC and have held two ESRC grants, one on urban regeneration and mental health and the other on a Chinese translation of our latest social inclusion measure.