As an NMC-registered academic community nurse and health visitor, Sally’s main research interest is in primary and community health care, especially research that seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of families, babies and children in the community and reduce inequalities. She holds a strong belief in working in partnership with parents, carers, families, children and young people and understanding their needs to inform research and practice. Throughout her 35-year research career she has taught and supervised health visitors and undertaken many studies that inform the development of health visiting practice and children's public health. She has a particular interest in breastfeeding and promoting self-efficacy for parents. Most recently she is the Principal Investigator on the NIHR-funded CIRCLE by the sea study that is looking at the experience of children, young people and parents of community services in coastal towns in England. Sally is also the co-PI with Dr Sharin Baldwin on the NIHR-funded REACH study on the realist evaluation of the MECSH programme focusing on families from Black and Asian backgrounds. Globally, Sally is the co-Director of the International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research and is Adjunct Professor at the Ngangk Yira Institute for Change, at Murdoch University in Western Australia, where she contributes to research with Aboriginal communities and families.

Sally has published widely and believes in using her experience and knowledge to build research capacity towards strengthening health visiting and the lives of children and families.

Publications: bit.ly/3Wpd1pn