Jodie joined the School of Academic Psychiatry in June 2026. She previously worked at the Cicely Saunders Institute as part of the Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care team. 

She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Glasgow, following her BA in Sociology from Western Washington University, where she and her co-authors developed and presented “Improve the Direct Long-Term Care Workforce in the State of Washington, USA: Search for Solutions though Policy Learning” virtually at the British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference in July 2021.