I completed my early clinical training in Cambridge and Worthing before obtaining a NTN in the Oxford Deanery in 2004. During this time I undertook a DPhil using fMRI to investigate the influence of hormones on pain processing in humans (Supervisors: Prof Irene Tracey, Prof Stephen Kennedy & Miss Jane Moore). I was appointed as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in 2009 and then as the NDOG Pain Fellow in 2014. Both these posts have allowed me to continue my research whilst completing my clinical training and developing specialist skills in the management of women with chronic pelvic pain.