Staff profile

About me

I'm a PhD candidate at Durham Law School, for which I'm very grateful to be funded by the AHRC through the Northern Bridge Consortium. I've been at Durham since 2017, starting with the LLB, then the MJur, and now the PhD.

Currently, I'm Senior Tutor in Law, and I teach Law and Medicine part-time. I've previously taught Tort Law and was a teaching assistant on the Frontiers in Biolaw and Global Environmental Law modules during my MJur. I was a co-convenor of the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) in the 2021-22 and 2023-24 academic years, and a PGR representative from 2022-24.

I also volunteer for the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) and sit on the editorial board of the Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law book series.

PhD research

My PhD research provides a comparative analysis of the patient-centric approach to end-of-life decision-making for patients lacking capacity, viewed through the lens of human dignity. I explore the role and impact of the protection of human dignity within the end-of-life context under English and German law. Specifically, I consider how human dignity might provide the basis for consistent, patient-centric decision-making under s 4 Mental Capacity Act 2005 by setting the best interests approach into comparison with the German presumed will frameworks.

I'm very fortunate to be supervised by Dr Sam Halliday and Professor Emma Cave.

Academic support and feedback hours

My academic support and feedback hours (previously known as office hours) for the 2024-25 academic year are from 09:00-10:00 on term-time Tuesdays in PCL 181.

Though not required, I encourage students with more complex or extensive queries to email them to me in advance of my office hour to enable me to give more helpful responses. Online (Teams) meetings are available during the hour by request. I may move the entire hour online if a majority of attendees are virtual.