Tom joined the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care in November 2021. He is a mental health nurse and family Therapist and has over 15 years of experience working clinically in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Tom remains clinically active as a family therapist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. From 2015-2020 he undertook a Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). His PhD investigated predictors outcomes in family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa.

Currently, Tom is the principal investigator for a NIHR-funded Policy Research Programme grant, investigating the impact of out-of-home calorie labels on people with eating disorders. He is also a co-investigator on the UKRI-funded Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network grant.

Tom's main research interests are in eating disorders, child and adolescent mental health, parenting and family therapy.

Enquiring about potential PhD supervision

If you’re thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and are looking for potential supervisors, please email nmpc_pgr_enquiries@kcl.ac.uk listing the names of the supervisors you’ve identified as having expertise in your chosen area, along with your CV and a short research proposal. 

Our Postgraduate Research Team will contact supervisors on your behalf and get back to you. If you have any queries in the meantime, please use the email address above, rather than contacting potential PhD supervisors directly, because they are unable to respond to initial enquiries.

Tom's research interests are in eating disorders, child and adolescent mental health, parenting and family therapy.

Research profile