I am a medically-qualified researcher in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. My work is funded through the AHRC. My interests are in the interdisciplinary medical humanities. I use research methods from disciplines such as art, literature, drama and creative writing to help develop nuanced understanding of experiences of illness and healthcare, and to critically examine systems of care. As part of my PhD thesis, I wrote a memoir, Flesh and Blood, about my experience of recurrent miscarriage while working as a medical expert witness in the family court, (Mslexia Memoir Awards Longlist, 2021) and a critical essay, Products of Conception, Imaging and Imagining the Maternal Foetal Relationship. The latter investigates how accounts of obstetric ultrasound in contemporary fiction and creative non-fiction can illuminate understanding of women’s relationships with their unborn babies. I am particularly interested in how the language women use differs radically from the language of obstetrics. Before embarking on an academic career, I read medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and worked as a consultant child psychiatrist in England and in New Zealand, developing clinical interests in neurodiversities and in medicolegal work. I have masters degrees in Mental Health Studies and in Medical Humanities (with distinction), both from King’s College, London, and have ambitions to see the humanities become an integral part of medical education. I have broad ranging interests in the interdisciplinary medical humanities, including: Novels and memoir, including graphic novels, featuring illness narratives, with a particular focus on women’s health and mental health. The supernatural in books and plays about illness. Arts and humanities in medical education.