Welcome to my academic homepage! I’m an Associate Professor in Data Science and Informatics and a member of the Senior Management Board of 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 (specifically model uncertainty and machine learning)
• Social Data Science (with a focus on utilising ‘unstructured data’ found ‘in the wild’)
• Scientometrics (database-wide data and analysis of the scientific record at scale)
• Social Inequality, Mobility and Stratification (with a focus on income, education, and health)
• Civic Technology (government procurement, transparency, and the role of the third sector in society)

With many thanks to some truly excellent co-authors, my work has recently been published in: Nature Climate Change, 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 lead on teaching our Summer Lecture Series in Demographic Data Science. I have previously taught Demographic Analysis, Life Course Research, Replication and Transparency in Open Social Science (a replication project and accompanying discussion group), Python for Sociologists, Econometrics with Financial Applications, anmd 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 various summer and autumn schools (e.g. SICSS-Oxford, OxBer.

I currently supervise methodologically advanced students in various areas of computational social science, although I am increasingly looking to supervise students in the area of large-scale scientometric analysis. If you would be interested in potentially joining our team as a postgraduate research student, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Last updated: 24th April, 2024.