Research

I’m currently doing a PhD at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow.

My PhD work is about using instrumental variable methods to study the health effects of income (and thinking about whether it even makes sense to talk about “the effects of income” – once a philosopher, always a philosopher). My master’s thesis (now published) was a piece of meta-research about systematic review methods. I’m interested in a lot of things, but particularly:

• Understanding how social and economic inequalities arise and how they affect health
• Making causal inference methods better understood and more accessible
• Bringing good software engineering practices from the tech industry into the academic world

CV in a nutshell

• PhD (2020–2023)
  MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
• Master of Public Health (2019–2020)
  University of Glasgow
• Worked as a software engineer (2016–2019)
  Cultivate Software (Edinburgh), Newspaper Club (Glasgow)
• Worked as an analyst (2014–2016)
  Water Industry Commission for Scotland
• Undergraduate MA(Hons) in Philosophy (+ a lot of maths) (2010–2014)
  University of Glasgow

Publications

You can find me on ResearchGate and ORCID.