Ongoing projects

Developmental follow-up, surveillance, and support at the age of four years

A British Association for Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up (BANNFU) framework for practice

I co-lead the development of this national framework alongside Dr Louise Leven and Dr Monica Negoita. The working group includes representatives from various medical specialities, allied health professionals, psychologists, teachers, and parents of those born preterm.

This framework underwent public consultation through the British Association of Perinatal Medicine, and is now being prepared for final publication.

NeoTRIPs

NeoTRIPs is a resident doctor-led network across the UK running neonatal research and QI projects. I am communications co-lead in the central committee.

Current projects include “The 22 week study”, a national prospective observational study of babies born at 22 weeks gestation.

REACH

Research, Evaluation and Audit for Child Health (REACH) is a pan-London resident doctor-led research network.

I am co-leading (with Dr Devika Thakur and Dr Mia Ottmann) SUPPORT - Supporting Under-resourced Parents and Patients: Optimising Resources and Tools. This study aims to explore how we support families living with financial challenges during paediatric and neonatal hospital admissions across London, and how we can do this better.

Current REACH projects also include BiliNEST, a study aiming to investigate the detection and assessment of jaundice in neonates of different skin tones. As part of this project, I was senior author for an article reviewing the current NICE Jaundice Guideline, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice.

ESPR Mentoring Programme

I am part of the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) Early Career Investigator Mentoring Programme (ECIMP), supervised by Professor Stéphane Sizonenko (Université de Genève).

I am undertaking a project invesigating the use of functional ultrasound in an animal model of cerebral palsy and rehabilitation.

Outcome of term infants with no heart rate detected at 10 minutes in the UK and Ireland

This is a prospective national cohort study with Dr Gemma Sullivan, undertaken with the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU).

Preliminary results were shared at the Neonatal Society. Publication is currently being prepared

SHARP

I have been part of the Human Remains Team at the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) since 2007. Ongoing projects include:

  • Preparation of a monograph describing the early medieval burial ground.

  • Analysis of three multi-period crouched inhumations (supported by a research grant from the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology).

  • Analysis and re-association of the disarticulated human remains within the early medieval burial ground (supported by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant).