I’m the Lead Data Scientist at NHS Grampian and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.
Networked Data Lab
I run Grampian’s collaboration with The Health Foundation and four other NHS centres across the UK. This is a six-year project working to reduce health inequalities.
Our team’s specialty is working with big, messy, high-security health and social care data. My focus is creating useful analysis for policy makers and care providers.
Right now we’re working on understanding inequalities in children’s mental healthcare.
Read a blog post about mental health prescribing to children. Or a post about children’s treatment by specialist mental health doctors. Check out our briefing paper for policy makers. Or wade into our academic research article.
Public Health
I also make open-source tools about local communities and their needs for NHS Public Health.
Check out:
Poverty and emergency hospital admissions
Overcrowding and vaccine needs
Funding in priority neighbourhoods
Research Culture
I’m a huge nerd for open science and good research culture. Scientists should be (but aren’t) rewarded for doing rigorous science. I recently gave evidence about this to the House of Commons Science & Technology committee. You can also watch a spicy symposium I hosted: Academic Journals are Broken. Let’s Build a Better Scientific Record.
Interested in improving research quality? I run the Aberdeen Open Research Working Group. All are very welcome to join - just drop me an email. There’s also lots of resources on my uni website.
Data Provenance
In 2022, I finished a Wellcome Trust Open Research project to design safe ways to be open while using high-security patient data. We automated the capture and reporting of complex data provenance without compromising patient data privacy.
Contact
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