Jenny Carter has worked in maternal health research since 2003, supporting and leading high-quality trials and clinical studies.  Most recently focusing on preterm birth and the award-winning St Thomas’ Preterm Surveillance Clinic, she established a novel patient and public involvement group and is a founder member of the UK Preterm Clinical Network.  She led development of, and continues to manage, the Preterm Clinical Network Database (www.medscinet.net/ukpcn), capturing clinical data on women at risk of preterm birth for use in local audit and collaborative cohort studies.  Her PhD work, which focused on risk assessment in threatened preterm labour and development of the QUiPP app, was supported by an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship and resulted in a KCL Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize.  Since completing her PhD she was supported by an NIHR postdoctoral Development and Skills Enhancement Award, and is currently Research Fellow for the Tommy's National Centre for Maternity Improvement.