I am a social data scientist using quantitative methods, social science theory and computational approaches to study geographic inequality, poverty, demography and public policy. Other (polite) things people have called me: geographer, economist, sociologist, statistician, data visualiser, demographer, cartographer. Take your pick! I start the day with library(tidyverse).

I work at the Department of Social Policy & Intervention, University of Oxford, where I am the Senior Departmental Research Lecturer in Quantitative Methods. I am a co-investigator on the Linking National and Regional Inequality project, a comparative study of trends in geographic income inequality in Europe and North America. I teach introductory and advanced quantitative methods in the department, convene the Modern Methods in Social Policy and Intervention Research seminar series and run the Methods Hub, an advisory service for DPhil (PhD) students.

I am also a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute (III) of the London School of Economics & Political Science, trustee of the British Society for Population Studies and an advisor to the Office for National Statistics on the UK Population Theme Advisory Board and the Government Statistical Service Migration Expert Group.

Outside work I run the All Stars section of Kidlington Cricket Club as an ECB qualified coach, am a member of Oxford and District Action on Child Poverty, an active advocate for roads that are safe by design, and a singer who passably plays accompanying instruments.