I am a computational social scientist and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL).
I research the social and economic effects of digital technologies, with a focus on their spatial dimensions. This includes work on the geography of homophily in online social ties, the political spillovers of local economic shocks through social networks, and the role of home working in internal migration. I also develop methods and tools that enable the use of population data in research and policy, such as the Longitudinal Impossible Dataset, and have wide-ranging experience with census, survey, administrative, and digital trace data (and their metadata).
I teach quantitative and computational methods to multidisciplinary student cohorts, and have taught students in sociology, politics, geography, epidemiology and digital humanities.
I am a member of the Census Support Service team at the UK Data Service, and have held earlier appointments with UCL CeLSIUS, the Office for National Statistics and the Welsh Government.