Amy is Professor of Applied Health and Social Care Research at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University. She leads a programme of research focused on optimising health and social care systems to better support people with multiple long-term conditions, with a specific interest in co-occurring substance use, mental and physical ill-health. Amy is a mixed-methods researcher who draws on theories, models, and frameworks from implementation science alongside participatory and co-design techniques to inform her work.
Amy has worked with a range of national and international collaborators, including as part of a Newcastle University partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Care Research Centre. She holds leadership roles in several NIHR infrastructures, including co-lead for the Prevention including Multiple Long Term Conditions Theme for the North East and North Cumbria Applied Research Collaboration, and is Co-Investigator on the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Specialist Centre for Social Care and the Policy Research Unit for Behavioural and Social Sciences. Within DeNPRU Exeter, Amy will lead on knowledge mobilisation, implementation science and impact.