I graduated from Durham University in 1999 with a degree in Natural Sciences. I then taught in schools for 5 years in the UK and spent 2 years designing, running and evaluating education and health projects for Moya Centre, a community based NGO in Eswatini that supports children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2011 I completed an MSc (Distinction) at LSHTM in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research. My summer project explored sex education support needs for children affected by HIV/AIDS attending an NGO in central London. I went on to work at MSI Reproductive Choices as a mixed methods researcher, generating evidence to support the organisation's family planning and abortion programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America. I completed my PhD at LSHTM in 2024 - the focus of my research was an MSI Reproductive Choices funded RCT and mixed-methods process evaluation of an intervention delivered by phone to women in Bangladesh to support post-menstrual regulation contraceptive use.

I am a module organiser and teach on the Online MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming.