I qualified as a Registered General Nurse in the mid 1980's and following a short period working with patients with medical conditions moved into paediatric nursing and qualified as a Registered Sick Children's Nurse in 1988. Following several years working in general paediatrics, paediatric intensive care and paediatric surgery, trauma and orthopaedics I trained as a health visitor. The training was due to my interest in health promotion. After five years working in Kent I moved to Bedfordshire where I have lived since 1996. As a health visitor in Bedford I also had a role in working with a multi-disciplinary team around accident prevention and was the liaison health visitor at Bedford Hospital. In 2000 I took a post in the Emergency Department at Bedford Hospital as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner following which I moved into practice development in the paediatric and neonatal unit at the same hospital. I qualified as a Registered General Nurse in the mid 1980's and following a short period working with patients with medical conditions moved into paediatric nursing and qualified as a Registered Sick Children's Nurse in 1988. Following several years working in general paediatrics, paediatric intensive care and paediatric surgery, trauma and orthopaedics I trained as a health visitor. The training was due to my interest in health promotion. After five years working in Kent I moved to Bedfordshire where I have lived since 1996. As a health visitor in Bedford I also had a role in working with a multi-disciplinary team around accident prevention and was the liaison health visitor at Bedford Hospital. In 2000 I took a post in the Emergency Department at Bedford Hospital as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner following which I moved into practice development in the paediatric and neonatal unit at the same hospital.

I am fascinated by the way we perceive the world around us and how as individuals we develop our perceptions of individuals and groups. I want to explore different ways of finding out about the world we live in and what makes us tick. Why do we do what we do?