Jill is a Consultant Paediatric Occupational Therapist clinician–researcher based at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She co-leads neonatal and childhood Stroke services and holds clinical and strategic leadership responsibilities within the Evelina REACH evidence-based rehabilitation service.

Jill has over 20 years’ experience in paediatric neurodisability and specialises in upper limb rehabilitation, early intervention, co-design, and knowledge translation. She completed her PhD through an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR300556), where she was Principal Investigator of Parents as Partners in Rehabilitation (PaPeR) the first study globally to apply Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) to intervention development in childhood-onset disability.

Since completing her doctorate, Jill has strengthened her research independence through competitive postdoctoral awards, including the Health Education England (HEE) Postdoctoral Bridging Scheme and the British Academy of Childhood Disability (BACD) Advanced Castang Fellowship. Her translational research has generated five co-designed clinical tools, four of which were implemented into routine practice within one year, including the nationally adopted Guide to Understanding Hemiplegia. This work has been recognised through the King’s College London Early Career Researcher Impact Award and the Guy’s & St Thomas’ AHP Research Impact Award (2024).

Jill also consults with Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Sydney, where she is a key contributing author to CPAdvance™. In this role, she supports the translation and implementation of evidence-based interventions in infants with cerebral palsy through the development of knowledge mobilisation tools. She also contributes to national and international research capacity-building, mentorship, and collaborates on relevant grant development.

Research interests:

• Partnership with service users and caregivers
• Paediatric neurodisability, including cerebral palsy and related neurodevelopmental conditions
• Evidence-based rehabilitation, with a focus on early intervention and upper limb interventions
• Knowledge translation and implementationparticipatory action researchco-design