Welcome to my academic homepage! I’m a Senior Departmental Research Lecturer and member of the senior management team at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, a Co-Investigator at the ESRC Centre for Care, and a steering group representative at Reproducible Research Oxford. I’m also honoured to be a former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Here you can find all of the latest updates about my current and on-going work, as well as links to all of my existing publications, works in progress and teaching materials. I maintain various open and interactive online projects, such as the GWAS Diversity Monitor. In general, my broader primary research interests – in addition to the Open Science movement – are related to:

  • Sociological\Econometric Methodology (and specifically model uncertainty and machine learning)
  • Social Data Science (unstructured data)
  • Scientometrics (database-wide data)
  • Social Inequality, Mobility and Stratification (income, education)
  • Civic Technology (government procurement, transparency)

With many thanks to some truly excellent co-authors, my work has recently been published in: AI & Society, Population Studies, the International Journal of Epidemiology, Nature Genetics, the new Nature sub-journal Communications Biology, the American Sociological Review, Nature Human Behaviour, the International Journal of Population Data Science, Kyklos, the Journal of Housing Economics and Computational Economics. Find the code for those papers on GitHub here.

I currently teach Demographic Analysis and Life Course Research, in Michaelmas and Trinity Terms respectively. I have previously taught Replication and Transparency in Open Social Science (a replication project and accompanying discussion group), Python for Sociologists, Econometrics with Financial Applications, An Introduction to Econometric Software. I also give guest lectures and workshops on ‘An Introduction to the Command Line’, ‘Machine Learning for Social Scientists’, the LaTeX typesetting language and co-convene Oxford SICSS 2022.

I also supervise postgraduate dissertations on topics related to scientometrics and sociological methods development, and specifically the use of predictive methods in Sociology.

Last updated: 13th July, 2023.