Areas of interest
Evaluation of professional training & education interventions, research capacity strengthening, pedagogic research and learning theory, statistics education, psychology applied to education and health, natural hazards & impacts on populations, recovery from natural disasters and GIS applied to natural hazards.
Background
My early academic career was in the earth sciences and geography, focused on faults and seismic hazards, disaster recovery and applications of GIS to hazard management (Oxford Brookes University, Durham University, University of Southampton and Liverpool John Moores University). I have been involved in research methods training for most of my career, alongside educational development work and geography teaching. Through my own research I have applied a wide range of methods: statistical analysis, psychometrics, interviewing and narrative analysis, and more recently, interests have expanded into areas of health systems. I joined LSTM’s Education and Training team 2014 on the Teaching & Scholarship track and am conveyor of the masters research methods module.
Professional memberships
Fellow of Royal Statistical Society
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Member of the International Association of Applied Linguistics
Member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics
Member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain