Jo joined the Unit in 2023 as a member of the Homelessness Research Programme Team and HSCWRU’s first full-time peer researcher.

Volunteer Peer Researcher and Advisory Group Member on a number of Unit studies, most recently the DHSC funded Out-of-Hospital Care Models (OOHCM) evaluation, and NIHR SSCR funded study of Strengthening Adult Safeguarding Responses to Homelessness and Self-neglect. She was also part of a project which engaged people with experience of homelessness in the production of a short film, which asks whether carrying out research with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness is ‘Just another form of exclusion?’

Jo is part of the study team for the new collaborative study Housing Model Evaluation (HOME) (2023 – 2026) which is examining the health impacts of different housing and support models for people with histories of chronic/repeat homelessness. She speaks regularly at events and meetings, most recently at the 23rd International Conference on Integrated Care in Antwerp, co-presenting one of two papers reporting on the OOHCM evaluation as part of a livestreamed session on Homelessness. She is co-author of the Cornes, M. et al. (2019) Transforming Out-of-Hospital Care for Patients who are Homeless. Support Tool & Briefing Notes