Biography

With a background in mathematics and statistics, I commenced my career in the Department of Statistics, University of Leeds. I have also worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and the United Medical and Dental Schools (now incorporated into King's College London).

My research has included: capture-recapture methods in the estimation of population size; multinomial logistic regression in modelling asthma symptoms; proportional hazards regression applied to survival following a stroke; kappa statistics in assessing observer agreement. At King's College London I was principal investigator for a comparative study of stroke in Barbados and South London. My current interests include the role of ethnicity in medical/ social research and the influence of atmospheric pollution and climate on stroke.

I joined the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire as Social Statistician in 2013. Having worked with CRIPACC colleagues in the areas of adolescent behaviour and epilepsy risk, I am currently part of a UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded team evaluating public health interventions.

My statistical research interests include:

Nonparametric statistical methods
Modelling observer agreement
History of statistics

Teaching experience includes:

BDS - dental statistics
MBBS - medical statistics, clinical epidemiology
MPH - medical statistics, epidemiology for public health
BSc - statistical inference