I have been with the Southampton Women’s survey since its birth in February 1998, more than twenty years! My role within the SWS team is to co-ordinate all the data that has been collected from the study participants and then, in collaboration with the Programmers, all the data is cleaned and checked for viability. The data is then passed on to Statisticians and Senior Scientists for analysis in order to produce papers and abstracts for publication. I also work alongside my colleague, Wendy Johnson, to help maintain continued recruitment and booking of appointments, so you may hear my voice on your answer phone from time to time.

Wearing another hat, I co-ordinate public engagement activities on behalf of the MRC LEC at The University of Southampton’s National Science and Engineering week and the Southampton General’s Hospital Open day based in LifeLab. At these events we often get SWS participants visiting our showcase activities, it’s great to see familiar faces, so please keep coming along and supporting us.

I think the research that is being done on the Southampton Women’s Survey is vital for the health and wellbeing of future generations, and I feel privileged to be a part of this survey team.