As a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, I work in the Trinity Centre for Global Health on the REFUGE-ED Project. REFUGE-ED is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, and is being conducted across seven European countries. The goal of the project is identify, implement, and evaluate existing evidence-based interventions for children and young people who are refugees, asylum seekers, or separated minors. In particular, we are interested in practices that can be implemented in formal and non-formal educational settings to promote inclusion, mental health, sense of belonging, and academic achievement. Further, a key feature of the project is it's co-design with children, families, teachers, practitioners, policymakers and other relevant stakeholders.

I completed my doctorate under the supervision of Dr. Frédérique Vallières – Associate Professor and Director of the Trinity Centre for Global Health– which focused on trauma and its sequelae in homeless adults.

Working with King’s College, London, I have also collaborated on research to strengthen the patient-perspective in routine HIV-healthcare. The goal was to determine the priorities of adults living with HIV in terms of commonly used measurement outcomes, develop a patient reported outcome measure (PROM), and establish how the novel PROM should be implemented to improve the patient-centredness of healthcare and maximize benefit for service users and clinicians. My role involved contact with service providers, accessing participants (adult intravenous drug users living with HIV and professionals in this sector), conducting semi-structured interviews, and identifying emergent themes.

As an academic and practitioner, I am interested in psychotraumatology, inclusion health, and psychological therapies.