Amanda has worked in the UK NHS as a nurse and health visitor, as a senior specialist scientist at the Medical Research Council and as a public health specialist and regional epidemiologist for the post-apartheid government in South Africa. She is currently an ESRC Administrative Data Research Fellow.
She is a mixed methods researcher and medical statistician. She has a PhD in childhood injury epidemiology, and Master of Public Health (MPH), both from the University of Nottingham and an MSc in Health Services Research from the Trent Institute for Health Services Research. She has previously held academic posts at the University of Nottingham and the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch in South Africa
Amanda's research and publications focus on interventions on reproductive and maternal health and how they relate to reproductive and environmental justice. She is a member of SisterSong collective and leads a research group for graduate students, PhDs, post docs, and early career researchers.
Amanda's research interests are in sexual and reproductive health, safety promotion and wellbeing and injury prevention. She has been specifically working in the areas of intimate partner violence prevention, and reproductive health issues for young people ‘on the move’ and in interventions for improving wellbeing through intervening in the early years.
Cochrane review: School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents
The Conversation: Keeping girls at school may reduce teenage pregnancy and STIs – but sex education doesn’t
Interested PhD candidates with proposals related to sexual and reproductive health, violence and injury prevention, global public health (eg. HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB) are welcome to contact Amanda.
Report: NICE guideline [NG68]: Sexually transmitted infections: condom distribution schemes, contributing author through the Public Health Advisory Committee, Condom Distribution Schemes
Amanda is a mixed methods researcher with expertise in injury prevention, public health and epidemiology. She is willing to supervise projects with a broad focus on sexual and reproductive health and injury prevention. Specific areas of interest include adolescent health, male sexual health, child sexual exploitation, sexual violence and intimate partner violence prevention. Favoured approaches for masters’-level projects are systematic reviews (both quantitative and qualitative), secondary data analysis of datasets (both quantitative and qualitative). She has some ongoing projects in the above subject areas that may suit students who are taking appropriate modules. For those wishing to undertake a PhD, projects can be developed around the above topic areas and a range of methods, including randomised controlled trials, are possible.