Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. I was Editor of JAN Journal of Advanced Nursing (2002-2017) and and was one of the founding editors of the Cochrane Incontinence Review Group (1996-2000) with particular responsibility for reviews on behavioural interventions for the management of urinary incontinence. I have been an invited member on a number of international consultations, government and research council committees (e.g. Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (1992-1996); MRC College of Experts for the Health Services and Public Health Research Board (2006-2009) and co-chaired the NHS R&D Programme Services for Older People in Primary Care co-ordinated by Halton and St Helens PCT (2005-2008). I was a member of the steering committee for the Evidence Synthesis Network (2011-2015), member of the executive committee (2011-2015) and co- chair (2014-2015) for the North West People in Research Forum (Public involvement/ engagement in research). I have also been a member and chair of various university and faculty committees. I regularly undertake expert peer review for NIHR, research councils and medical charities programme and project grants and final reports. I have held academic positions at Surrey, Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Keele and Liverpool John Moores Universities and have been a Non-Executive Director of four Health Authorities and NHS Trusts serving as Chair of Pharmaceutical Development Committee and Quality Assurance Committees. I was awarded a Harvard Education Center Fellowship, Department of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, World Health Organisation Fellow and received the RCN/Molnlycke award for excellence in continence care. I have held a number of honorary academic positions and been an invited visiting international scholar at the Universities of Washington, USA; Alberta & Manitoba, Canada; Deakin & Edith Cowan, Australia & Cork, Ireland. I was Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia 2014-2016. I am an Honorary Fellow at PSSRU, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Manchester.