CURRENT POSITIONS
- Mellon Fellow in Public Policy (2016 to 2017), Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIS), University of Cambridge.
- Teaching Bye-Fellow, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
- Visiting researcher Work and Health Joint Unit, Department for Work and Pensions, UK Government. Co-lead evaluator for the Group Work / JOBS II intervention.
- Course lecturer and supervisor: MPhil in Public Policy: ‘Employment, Mental Health and Welfare: How do we get people into work?
- Co-organiser of ‘The Syria series’ and public policy seminars and events in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
- Honorary research fellow, WHO-ECOHOST, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.
- Advisor to Dharma Platform: A new survey tool and application for collecting and analysing data in humanitarian and conflict zones.
Academic positions
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2007 – 2009)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Social & Political Science, University of Cambridge, Visiting post-doctoral fellow, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health (2005 – 2006)
ESRC-funded PhD student, Faculty of Social & Political Science, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge (2001 – 2005)
ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit Award, Centre for Society, Health and Human Development, Harvard School of Public Health
(Aug – Dec 2003). Under the supervision of Professor Ichiro Kawachi.
Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Geography, MSc (1999 – 2000)
BSc (2:1) Human Geography Queen Mary, University of London (1996 – 1999)
ACADEMIC REVIEWER: Lancet, Medicine Sans Frontiers, Social Science and Medicine, UNHCR Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, Oxford Companion to Architecture, Royal Commission for Environmental Pollution, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Evaluation and Programme Planning.
Grant reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and European Commission. I also have considerable experience in grant writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading.
I currently supervise undergraduates in politics and sociology at Magdalene College. I have previously supervised statistics courses in Cambridge, acted as an external marker for the Int 1 Projects in the Department of Sociology. I have also acted as a supervisor on the Geography of Modern Britain paper, Department of Geography, Cambridge.
- Co-editor of Options for a New Britain and Options for a New Britain: cross cutting policy issues with Professor Iain McLean, Dr David Halpern and Dr Varun Uberoi.
- ESRC funded project which culminated in two books bringing together leading academics, politicians and policy-makers to provide policy options for the incoming British government in 2010.
- Organised three high-level conferences as well as seminars and roundtables in Cambridge, Oxford and London involving senior politicians, policy-makers, academics and journalists.
- Liaised with senior politicians and government ministers, prepared and wrote press releases, policy briefs, funding pitches, journal articles and book chapters, and raised project funding.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Social & Political Science, University of Cambridge, Visiting post-doctoral fellow, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health (2005 – 2006)
ESRC-funded PhD student, Faculty of Social & Political Science, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge (2001 – 2005)
- Thesis: Psychosocial Health Impact of Welfare to Work Programmes on Lone Parents.
- This research has formed the evidence base for a series of publications most notably the Economics Task group for the Marmot Review and also the Fair Society Healthy Lives review. The evidence review was also used in the EU Working for Equity in Health projects in 2012. More recently the evidence review featured in the Social determinants of health and the health divide section 6.2.3 Active labour-market policies.
ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit Award, Centre for Society, Health and Human Development, Harvard School of Public Health
(Aug – Dec 2003). Under the supervision of Professor Ichiro Kawachi.
Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Geography, MSc (1999 – 2000)
- Thesis: “Health Impact Assessment of Employment Regeneration Schemes in East London” (40,000 words) (Grade: Distinction)
- Method: In-depth qualitative interviews with key stakeholders in regeneration programmes (programme participants, managers and local government officials).
BSc (2:1) Human Geography Queen Mary, University of London (1996 – 1999)
ACADEMIC REVIEWER: Lancet, Medicine Sans Frontiers, Social Science and Medicine, UNHCR Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, Oxford Companion to Architecture, Royal Commission for Environmental Pollution, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Evaluation and Programme Planning.
Grant reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and European Commission. I also have considerable experience in grant writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading.
I currently supervise undergraduates in politics and sociology at Magdalene College. I have previously supervised statistics courses in Cambridge, acted as an external marker for the Int 1 Projects in the Department of Sociology. I have also acted as a supervisor on the Geography of Modern Britain paper, Department of Geography, Cambridge.
