I spent 6 years in academia, 3 of those as a post-graduate researcher in the doctoral school of Royal Holloway University of London, specialising in Medical Ethics. My research is still being used in academia and in the medical field today..

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My Undergraduate dissertation was an opening enquiry to the way that the opioid crisis impacted chronic pain patients.

My Postgraduate Research dissertation was an exploration of the impact the opioid crisis, and the harm done to chronic pain patients collateral damage. 

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I did my undergraduate degree from 2017 to 2020 as a BA (Hons) Philosophy (2:1) with my honours dissertation titled "What are the Ethical Implications of the Harm Done to Chronic Pain Patients by the Withholding of Opioids, as a Consequence of the Opioid Crisis?" (1st). During my time as an undergraduate, I also had a number of articles about disability published on The Mighty. 

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Between my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, I also got a qualification from an online course by Harvard Medical School titled "The Opioid Crisis", in preparation for my Research Masters.

 

I achieved my MRes (MA in Philosophy by Research) in Medical Ethics in 2023, named "Withholding Relief: Why chronic pain patients deserve a quality of life, and how it became unimportant in the collateral damage of the opioid crisis".

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My biggest accomplishment during my time as a Postgraduate was creating a new 'chronic pain scale' to replace the old-school system of 'label your pain is between 1-10'. The concept of a 1-10 scale is entirely subjective to each patient, and gives no information about the qualities or the source of the pain. My scale has since been taken on by multiple pain teams in the UK; has been used as part of a curriculum at multiple universities/med schools across spanning two continents; and has reached over 18,000 patients to support their pain care. As of September 2025 I am still contacted by patients who use the scale to help them communicate their pain, and lecturers to tell me they use it as a resource in their classes. ​

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The alternative pain scale for chronic pain patients can be found available to download in it's high-contrast version and low-ink easy-print version right here, and is free to use with my name on as found in my resources tab. Both my undergrad and postgrad dissertations are also available on my resources tab; as well as the links to all of my articles on disability that were published during undergrad.