Staff Profile
I am an epidemiologist whose main research focus is health inequalities. I joined the University in 2024 to work on an NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit project on reducing inequalities related to substance use and mental health. I am a member of the Population Health Sciences Institute.
My interest in epidemiology began with an MSc in Public Health Nutrition, following which I embarked on a PhD at the University of Leeds in which I analysed the monetary costs of diets and how they related to socioeconomic differences, diet quality and obesity. I expanded my focus to the epidemiology of osteoarthritis and physical activity at the Universities of Nottingham and Lincoln, during which time I also lectured on nutrition and research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level. A move to the Epidemiology Group at the University of Aberdeen then saw me focussing again on inequalities, working with the to investigate the relationship between childhood adversity and chronic pain in adulthood. I have experience working with several national cohort data sets, as well as routine data and data linkage.
I am a keen advocate for open science, public involvement, and positive research culture for the improvement of science.