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Biography
Following a BA in Geography and a PGCE, both at the University of Leicester, I taught Geography in secondary schools before moving to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where I studied for an MSc in Demography and Health. I completed my PhD at the University of Nottingham, before being appointed to Lecturer, and then Associate Professor, in Medical Statistics.
Expertise Summary
Keywords:
Large database research, epidemiology, medical statistics, policy evaluation, time series analysis.
Teaching Summary
I teach medical statistics and epidemiology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and supervise undergraduate BMedSci, taught postgraduate Master in Public Health, and PhD students.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research Summary
The majority of my work utilises my expertise in managing and analysing quantitative data, ranging from relatively small local survey datasets to extremely large datasets of routinely-collected… read more
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Thorax International Journal of Respiratory Medicine - Statistical Editor (2012-2015)
​Member of The Health Improvement Network (THIN) Scientific Review Committee (2011-2015)
Current Research
The majority of my work utilises my expertise in managing and analysing quantitative data, ranging from relatively small local survey datasets to extremely large datasets of routinely-collected primary and secondary care medical data. My particular research interests lie in using these data sources to study the care of children born prematurely and their immediate and longer-term health outcomes.