I studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and completed a PhD in particle physics at Durham University. I then retrained as a medical statistician through an NIHR research methods fellowship. As part of the fellowship I obtained an MSc in Medical Statistics from LSHTM and worked at the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, Queen Mary University of London. I joined the School as a research fellow in 2014. Since then I have worked on a variety of project including work on both trials and observational studies.
Affiliations
Department of Medical Statistics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health
Teaching
I give lectures and facilitate practicals on the Statistical Inference course, which is part of the Foundations of Medical Statistics module of the Medical Statistics MSc. I also tutor students who are studying for the Medical Statistics MSc.
Research
I currently work with Professor Ruth Keogh on a project looking at statistical methods for estimating causal effects of treatments using electronic health records data, with applications in advanced chronic kidney disease,
Another of my research interests is in the statistical methodology of clinical trials. I held a MRC Skills Development Fellowship (2017-2023), during which I looked at ways of improving the statistical efficiency of randomised controlled trials through their design, focusing on trials that look for a difference in slopes over time and series of N-of-1 trials.
Another of my research interests is in the statistical methodology of clinical trials. I held a MRC Skills Development Fellowship (2017-2023), during which I looked at ways of improving the statistical efficiency of randomised controlled trials through their design, focusing on trials that look for a difference in slopes over time and series of N-of-1 trials.
Research Area
Statistical methods
Clinical trials
Research methodology
Applied statistics (medical)
Randomised controlled trials
Electronic health records
Selected Publications
The association between anthropometric measures of adiposity and the progression of carotid atherosclerosis.
2020
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Reflection on modern methods: calculating a sample size for a repeatability sub-study to correct for measurement error in a single continuous exposure.
2019
International Journal of Epidemiology
Quality of stepped-wedge trial reporting can be reliably assessed using an updated CONSORT: crowd-sourcing systematic review.
2018
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Increasing the Availability of Psychological Treatments: A Multinational Study of a Scalable Method for Training Therapists.
2018
Journal of medical Internet research