Research
My research interests lie in developing and implementing statistical methodology for health and epidemiological applications, with a particular focus on health inequalities. I am part of the Environmental Statistics group within the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow.
Areas of current research include the following:
Child growth modelling - developing methodology to improve child health worldwide, implementing models for individual child growth trajectories. These trajectories can be used to investigate associations between growth faltering and health outcomes in later life.
Spatio-temporal disease mapping and cluster detection, fusing classical clustering methodology with Bayesian spatial and spatio-temporal modelling. This methodology has been applied to hospital admission data in Glasgow to identify clusters of regions with higher disease risk.
Multivariate spatio-temporal modelling of air pollution using both monitored and modelled pollution data. This has been applied to data for the whole of Scotland.
Publications
A full list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile.
Software
The code to fit some of the models in my publications can be found here. This is something of a work in progress, so please contact me if anything is missing or if you have any other issues.
PhD Students
Taweesak Channgam - Models for longitudinal child growth data. (co-supervised with Dr Tereza Neocleous)
Riham Hamza Ismail - Spatio-temporal modelling of localised health inequalities in Glasgow (co-supervised with Dr Nema Dean)
Emily Hird - Development of novel ways to integrate geophysical and geotechnical data for automated ground modelling of offshore wind farms (co-supervised with Dr Stephen Suryasentana, University of Strathclyde in partnership with Ørsted)
Eilidh McMurdo - Developing a statistical definition of child growth faltering (co-supervised with Dr Ruth O'Donnell)
I would be interested in supervising further PhD students - if you are interested in research in any of the areas listed above please contact me to discuss potential opportunities.