I am a prosthetist/orthotist by background. After working clinically for a number of years I moved into prosthetic and orthotic education working in the UK at the University of Salford, and in Norway at Oslo Metropolitan University. In 2020 I moved into medical education here at Newcastle. I completed my Phd from Lancaster University in 2012. My thesis was "Troublesome or Threshold: the experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics".