I am an Assistant Professor in the Durham University Philosophy Department. My background is in philosophy of science, especially medicine and social sciences, but I have also worked in clinical ethics and meta-research spaces.

In addition to my philosophical research, I have worked on empirical projects as part of interdisciplinary teams. These projects address my philosophical interest in the intersections between epistemology and ethics. For example, I am involved in projects examining and critiquing hospital code status ontologies and measuring their impact on clinician’s attitudes about withholding and withdrawing care with a team of physicians and scientists. I co-led a large project examining how scientists discuss causal aspects of their work in the scientific literature. During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked as part of teams analysing resource allocation principles and documents in order to make decisions about ventilator allocation, and examining methods problems in published work on COVID-19.

As part of my interest in meta-research topics, I am currently working on a book-length project on the history of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and what its successes and struggles can tell us about future possibilities for academic publishing systems.

In future work, I plan to undertake a large multi-year project examining differences in method use and development in epidemiology and economics. I am also planning a project which develops a new variation on systematic reviews in order to incorporate ethical analysis, which will first be used to survey the literature on modifications to resident and junior doctor work hours in the UK and the US. Lastly, I am beginning work which uses qualitative methods in order to better understand issues researchers face in participating in adaptive meta-analysis projects.

I am originally from the United States and enjoy hiking, swimming, ballet and baking.