Staff Profile

I joined Newcastle University as Reader in Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics in June 2024. This followed seven years as an academic in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Kent.

My postdoctoral positions were at the School of Public Health at Imperial College London and the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King's College London. I studied for my doctorate at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London under the supervision of Prof David Hand.

My research has had three major strands:

• I have applied natural language processing (NLP) methods to health-related data. This includes my doctoral research, which applied these methods to free-text data describing patient safety incidents that had occurred in the UK's National Health Service. I am currently supervising the application of NLP methods to health-related data as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project.
• I worked on a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of systemic lupus erythematosus. A key focus of my future research plans is to develop more effective statistical models for this type of data.
• I developed Bayesian hierarchical models for the Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Collaboration, as well as carrying out other statistical analyses of global health data.

This research has led to papers published in Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Food, The Lancet, The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, and The Lancet Global Health. I have worked with varied academic researchers on health-related data as well as collaborating with external organisations. I'm always keen to develop new collaborations so please get in touch.

For more details please see my ORCiD profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5733-9417.

I will start teaching in September 2024. More information will appear before then!