I am a consultant physiotherapist in primary care and an Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy and Course Director at Coventry University. My work sits across clinical practice, university education, and professional development, with a particular interest in how clinicians think, communicate, and make decisions in complex healthcare environments.
My route into healthcare was not a traditional one. I left school at 16 and joined the Army, before later working in the prison service as a Physical Training Instructor. Working in those environments, and with a wide range of people and situations, shaped how I think about responsibility, decision-making, leadership, and human behaviour. Those experiences continue to influence how I approach clinical practice and education today. Understanding people and not just conditions is at the centre of good clinical practice.
Over time, I became increasingly interested in how clinicians make decisions in real practice, particularly in situations where the answer is not obvious, where risk is involved, and where experience, judgement, and responsibility matter. Professional judgement is not simply clinical reasoning. It is the integration of knowledge, experience, systems awareness, and reflective practice within complex healthcare environments, and it develops over time through practice and responsibility.
As a consultant physiotherapist in primary care, I work with uncertainty, complexity, and decision-making in real clinical environments. Alongside clinical reasoning, I am particularly interested in the consultation itself, how clinicians communicate, understand people’s concerns and expectations, and make decisions together in real conversations.
Alongside clinical practice, I work in higher education as an Assistant Professor and Course Director, leading curriculum development across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including first contact practitioner programmes and degree apprenticeships. I am particularly interested in how we prepare the next generation of clinicians for the realities of modern healthcare practice, not just to pass exams, but how to think, communicate, make decisions, and take responsibility amongst an ever-changing healthcare environment.
I am the author of Clinical Reasoning: Rhymes, Reflections and Reason, and my second book, Clinical Consultation Practice: Structure, Reflection and Shared Decision-Making, is due to be released soon. Across both writing and teaching, my work explores how clinicians develop judgement, communication, and decision-making over the course of a professional career.
Outside of work, I love to challenge myself at CrossFit , spend time with family, and keep perspective on what really matters. These parts of life remind me that development, resilience, and performance, in any field, are built over time through experience, reflection, and learning.