I am a nurse researcher, institutional ethnographer and educator working on health workforce wellbeing, with seventeen years of practice in transplant surgery, critical care and organ donation. I study how working conditions, organisational resources and inequalities shape nursing stress, resilience, burnout and migration.

I currently work across Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Edinburgh Napier University. I have worked at Charité since 2019, previously at the Institut für Klinische Pflegewissenschaft (IKPW), and now in Gender in Medicine.

My recent publications include a psychometric evaluation of a 57-item German nursing stress instrument, which examines what its subscales measure and where items may not apply, and work on relational buffers against healthcare system strain. These sit alongside research on nurse migration and the professional ideals and conditions that shape burnout.

My research starts from the everyday realities of nursing work: the shift, the ward, the policy document, the electronic record, the staffing decision and the small moral judgements through which care is made possible. Institutional ethnography gives me a way to trace those local experiences into the wider systems that coordinate them.

My PhD, Ecologies of Care, developed a posthuman institutional ethnography of nursing. It examined how people, policies, technologies, places and material conditions collectively organise nurse work. I have since extended this approach through research on regulation, workforce wellbeing, structural inequality and healthcare technology.

Alongside institutional ethnography, I use mixed methods, psychometrics, qualitative research, evidence synthesis, implementation science and process evaluation. This combination allows me to move between close accounts of everyday practice and the evaluation of complex interventions across health and academic systems.

My work currently connects four areas: nursing workforce wellbeing and retention; implementation and process evaluation; responsible health technology and AI; and nursing philosophy, critical posthumanism and care ethics.

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