Areas of specialism
- Advanced quantitative research methods and analysis
- Political sociology, political psychology, and migration studies
- Social cohesion, crime, generalised trust, ethnic diversity, inequality
Biography
I am a Political Scientist (PhD, University of Edinburgh) with broad expertise and interest in social science analytics. Previous to joining BLG DRC I held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam. Substantively, my research interests lie at the intersection of migration studies, political sociology, political psychology, and methodology.
In my work I seek to understand the processes behind crime, the creation and loss of generalized trust, and confidence in governments. I am not only interested in the impact of ethnic diversity and inequality on these phenomena, but particularly the methodological implications that follow from extant research.
I use a wide range of advanced statistical techniques such as multilevel, structural equation modelling, spatial panel analysis, and recently machine learning ensembles. I draw on survey questionnaires, register, and experimental data.
How you bring data to life
Throughout my academic career I have aspired to pose and answer research questions that follow from methodological and empirical lacunas, which have dictated collecting novel data and employing cutting-edge techniques.
What you bring to the Centre
I apply advanced statistical and programming tools to sociologically pertinent phenomena.
My objectives are twofold: (1) to provide practitioners with behavioural insights for public policy in the face of uncertainty; and (2) to contribute to theory-driven social science research by means of causal inference.