Ongoing projects
I am research co-lead for BANNFU, a special interest group of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM).
Ongoing projects include:
Development of a national guideline on 0-2 year neurodevelopmental follow-up.
Survey of national follow-up of children with congenital CMV.
Survey of UK resident doctors experience and confidence in undertaking neonatal neurodevelopmental follow-up.
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.
Ongoing projects include
The 22 week study, a national prospective observational study of babies born at 22 weeks gestation.
SAFE-Neo, a national QI project to reduce unplanned extubations.
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. This has been supported by a small grant from the St George’s Hospital Charity: Addressing Health Inequalities Small Grants Programme.
Other ongoing REACH projects include:
BiliNEST, a study aiming to investigate the detection and assessment of jaundice in neonates of different skin tones.
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 investigating 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 (University of Edinburgh), undertaken with the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU).
Preliminary results were shared at the Neonatal Society. Publication is currently under peer review.
I have been part of the Human Remains Team at 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).
