About
I am a Research Assistant in the Department of Primary Care and Mental Health supporting the research activities of the Beacon service. In my role I oversee routinely collected psychometric data that is used to understand the clinical profiles of the prisoner population and the effectiveness of the intervention delivered. My recent work centres on co-production and Participatory Action Research (PAR) in prison settings. I led on a PAR study examining what success is in a prison treatment programme. I trained and mentored three prisoner co-researchers, who were involved in all research stages from ethical approval and design to data collection and analysis.
My research interest is mental health and justice. I am interested in understanding mental health interventions in prisons and probation and how they can impact individuals’ paths through the Criminal Justice System. My PhD involved a year-long ethnographic study of a prison treatment programme, examining service structure, delivery, and deselection processes.
I graduated from the University of Pecs with a BA in Psychology (2014), Maastricht University with an MRes in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (2016) - Psychopathology specialisation, and University of Liverpool with a PhD in Health Services Research (2022).