Mental health nurse consultant working in the field of suicide and self-harm. Working clinically in psychiatric liaison and also family liaison with carers of patients with suicidal behaviour and relatives bereaved by suicide. Involved in staff support following deaths of patients by suicide. Research interests include informal caregivers of adults at risk of suicide, suicide among nurses, impact of self harm and deaths of patients by suicide on clinicians. Also lecturer in mental health nursing at Oxford Brookes University.