Rachel is a Fellow at the Nuffield Trust.
She joined the Trust in June 2018 as a Researcher in Policy and has worked on a wide range of qualitative research projects on topics such as digital inclusion, prison health and social care. She has a particular interest in access to health care, health inequalities and involving people with lived experience in research. Rachel is a Trustee of The Advocacy Project, a charity which supports people speak up and make decisions about their health, wellbeing and social care through advocacy, user involvement projects and local Healthwatch services.
Prior to joining the Trust, Rachel worked at Alzheimer’s Society, where she led on mental capacity, end of life and disability policy, and has also worked in numerous other health care charities in advice and information, policy and campaigns.
Rachel has a degree in Law from the University of Oxford and a master’s in International Human Rights Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, where her dissertation research focused on the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.