Jay is a Public Health Research Officer at Birmingham Hippodrome. His work uses primary and secondary research methods to understand the impact of applied theatre programmes on the mental health of young people and adults with complex access needs.

Using Birmingham Hippodrome's Creative Partnerships work in schools and local communities, Jay uses paper-based and electronic surveys to capture data about service users. This data is combined with official statistics from ONS, DfE and PHE to create an original, widely applicable evaluation framework for creative health-based partnerships.