Research interests: Economic demography, health, development, economic history, genomics
March 2026: Dr Bianca Stumbitz and I will present the main findings of our ESRC-funded project on Transitions to Parenthood in UK SMEs at an All-Party-Parliamentary-Group meeting in Westminster.
January 2026: two NIHR proposals I am a co-I on are being funded
Realist evaluation of drug education for 13-15 year olds in alternative education and deprived areas
PIs: Profs Karen Duke & Betsy Thom - £497,920.68
A mixed methods study into the prevalence, experience & cost of suicidal ideation & behaviour among older adults in receipt of social care in England
PI: Dr Hilary Norman - £561,854.00
December 2025: John Magpayo and I received Research Facilitation Funding (RFF) from Middlesex for a mixed-method evaluation of nudging charitable donations
October 2025: Paper coauthored with Prof Lisa Marzano evaluating a suicide awareness-raising campaign in Barnet published in BMC Public Health
October 2025: John Magpayo, my first PhD student, passed the Stage 1 panel of his PhD on how to nudge charitable behaviour among young adults
Middlesex University - London
Senior Lecturer
The Burroughs, HendonIZA@LISER - Institute of Labor Economics
Research Fellow
May 2025: Pre-analysis plans for the Transition to Parenthood project published: observational study / survey experiments
April 2025: Paper on Fertility and Education Choices in Deeply Divided Societies published in the Journal of the European Economic Association
October 2024: Paper on the baby boom R&R at the Journal of Economic Growth
August 2024: Paper on the measurement of breastfeeding prevalence with Demographic and Health Survey accepted at BMC Public Health