Hannah is a Research Associate in Health Inequalities for the Healthier Futures Research Platform. She sits in the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester. She uses a range of evidence synthesis methods to investigate health inequalities and the wider determinants of health, with a particular focus on the effects of public sector policy and health and social care interventions. 

In August 2024, Hannah began an Open Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester. She is developing a reporting guideline for Data Notes of qualitative health and social care research datasets (the DeNOTE study).

Before this, Hannah completed her PhD in Health Psychology at the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology. Hannah used systematic review and qualitative methods to investigate the psychological impact of false positive screening test results on women in the NHS Breast Screening Programme. Hannah's PhD was funded by NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Manchester. 

Prior to her PhD, Hannah completed her BSc (Hons) Psychology (with International Study) and her MSc Health Psychology at the University of Manchester. Between Hannah's MSc and PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant on the NIHR-funded SuMMiT-D diabetes project at the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, and on a Cancer Research UK-funded project related to help seeking for cancer symptoms, at the International Hub for Quality of Life Research.

Health inequalities

Evidence synthesis methods

False positive test results in cancer screening

The psychological, emotional and behavioural impact of screening

Outcome measurement and measurement practices in cancer screening research

Open science practices, particularly those related to qualitative research

Systematic, rapid and scoping reviews of quantitative and qualitative research 

Quality appraisal of qualitative research for the purposes of evidence synthesis

Qualitative research 

Open science practices