Jackie is an experienced public health and health services researcher both in the UK and Australia. She has worked in oral health, intensive care and health workforce research as well as working as a senior policy adviser within the government in Victoria, Australia. She is now undertaking research in the Public Health and Society Research Group within the the Department of Health Sciences. Her interests include preventative oral health and improving oral health inequalities; trial recruitment and methodology including study within a trial (SWAT) methodology and undertaking systematic and scoping reviews.
Member of the Making The Difference Committee
Jackie is interested in supervising Masters and PhD projects relating to health services research. Specific areas of interest include the prevalence and severity of dental conditions in priority populations; preventive health care (particularly for dental conditions); aligning policy and practice; understanding the needs and preferences of children and young people when considering participating in research; and factors affecting trial recruitment and retention.
Jackie is able to supervise Masters projects and has a broad interest in health services research. Specific areas of interest include the prevalence and severity of dental conditions in priority populations; preventive health care (particularly for dental conditions); aligning policy and practice; and factors affecting trial recruitment and retention.
Preferred approaches for Masters projects are systematic reviews or other forms of literature reviews such as scoping reviews.