I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL). I work across computational social science and population data science. See my UCL profile.
My research examines how people’s social, economic and political outcomes relate to the places and networks they are part of. This includes work on the geography of partisan homophily in online social ties, on the political spillovers of local economic shocks through social networks and on the relationship between remote work and internal migration. I also develop methods, tools and resources, such as the Longitudinal Impossible Dataset, that make population data easier to use safely in social science research.
I have wide-ranging experience with census, survey, administrative and digital trace data (and their metadata). I am a member of the Census Service at the UK Data Service and have previously worked at UCL CeLSIUS, the Office for National Statistics and the Welsh Government.
I teach quantitative and computational methods to multidisciplinary student cohorts, and have taught students in sociology, politics, geography, epidemiology and digital humanities.