Joanna has recently completed her PhD on socioeconomic inequality in palliative and end-of-life care at the Cicely Saunders Institute. She has a background in sociology, social policy and epidemiology and her research focuses on the use of big data to investigate the social determinants of the care people receive towards the end of life. She is also interested in equity issues in academic appointments and retention and recently published a paper on: Maternity provision, contract status, and likelihood of returning to work: Evidence from research intensive universities in the UK.
