Jo joined the Unit in 2023 as a member of the Homelessness Research Programme Team and HSCWRU’s first peer researcher.

Jo is part of the team for the new NIHR RPSC funded study on Specialist residential care for people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage, and before that worked on the Housing Model Evaluation (HOME) study.

Previously she was a Volunteer Peer Researcher and Advisory Group Member on the DHSC funded Out-of-Hospital Care Models (OOHCM) evaluation, and NIHR SSCR funded Adult Safeguarding, Homelessness and Self-neglect study. She was part of a project which engaged people with lived experience in a short film, which asks whether carrying out research with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness is ‘Just another form of exclusion?’

She speaks regularly at events, including the 23rd International Conference on Integrated Care in Antwerp, co-presenting an HSCWRU paper in a livestreamed session on Homelessness. She is co-author of Cornes, M. et al. (2019) Transforming Out-of-Hospital Care for Patients who are Homeless. Support Tool & Briefing Notes.