May 2025 - My co-authors and I have had a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal Applied Energy with the title "FiT for Purpose? Investigating the Effects of Feed-in-Tariffs on Renewable Energy Penetration in Europe."

April 2025 - I hosted colleagues from the Energy Institute, KPMG, and Kearney for an onboarding and training workshop ahead of Statistical Review of World Energy. 

February 2025 - One of my PhD students, Meg Sullivan, successfully defended her thesis! 

August 2024 - New publication! Investigating the link between students’ learning intentions and their learning outcomes: A clustered randomised controlled trial published in the International Review of Economics Education (with Rachel Forshaw and Suzanne Lampert). 

June 2024 - I was in London for the launch of Statistical Review of World Energy 2024. 

June 2023 - I was in London for the launch of Statistical Review of World Energy 2023 where I was interviewed at the Energy Institute's HQ. 

November 2022 - New publication! War in Ukraine: The options for Europe's energy supply published in The World Economy (with Chris Aitken). 

March 2022 - I wrote an article on natural gas in Europe with Chris Aitken for the Economics Observatory. 

March 2022 - I wrote an article on COP26 and global energy use with Rachel Forshaw for the Economics Observatory. 

November 2021 - New fully-funded PhD opportunities!   

October 2021 - I participated in a podcast series where I discussed global energy use and energy statistics: Episode 3 of Shaping the Future podcast series. 

April 2021 - I was a presenter at the European Chemistry Society (EUChemS) conference with Mark Schaffer and Julian Fennema. 

March 2021 - New fully-funded PhD opportunities!  Apply at this link and general information at this link. 

November 2020 - Joe Byrne and I have a new working paper: Endogenous Uncertainty in the Oil Market: A Bayesian Stochastic Volatility-in-Mean Analysis. 

September 2020 - I have a new working paper on the CEERP working paper series: The Crude Oil Market and US Economic Activity: Revisiting the Empirical Evidence. 

March 2020 - Mark Schaffer and I have had a new publication: Understanding the Economic Impact of Oil Price Shocks in the Asian Journal of Economics and Banking. 

March 2020 - Julian Fennema and I wrote a review of the oil and gas industry in 2019, which was commissioned by Cairn Energy and published in the company's Annual Report. 

February 2020 - A new publication: A Theory-based Lasso for Time-Series Data in Studies in Computational Intelligence. 

January 2020 - I attended the annual Crieff conference organised by the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics.

September 2019 - I attended the Developments in Economics Education (DEE) conference in Warwick organised by the Economics Network.

July 2019 - I attended the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

June 2019 - I attended the Conference in International Economics organised by the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance.

June 2019 - I attended the Statistical Review of World Energy launch event at BP plc headquarters in London.

February 2019 - I attended the Energy Outlook launch event at BP plc headquarters in London.