Jo is a Lecturer in Health Services Research and Education in the Children and Young People’s Palliative Care Team, under the leadership of Professor Lorna Fraser in the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation (CSI).

Jo’s research interests include the adaptation and development of interventions to support children and young people living with life limiting conditions and medical complexity, with a particular focus on rehabilitation. In her previous role, as a post-doctoral research fellow at the CSI, she was a co-investigator and Scientific Project Manager for the EU Horizon funded project ‘INSPIRE Palliative rehabilitation to improve quality of life for individuals with incurable cancer'.

Her research uses mixed methods investigating models of care for people with advanced disease and multimorbidity, focusing on rehabilitation in palliative care. Jo came to KCL in 2016 to undertake a NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship under the supervision of Professors Matt Maddocks and Irene Higginson at the CSI.

She is a physiotherapist by background, qualifying from the Leeds School of Physiotherapy in 1987. She was a specialist physiotherapist at a Hospice in Liverpool in the UK, from 1996-2015 and her clinical background in palliative and hospice care informs her research.

She has a Master of Research in Health Sciences from the University of Liverpool (2011) and a PhD from KCL (2020).