I have a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, demography, and epidemiology. After a spell working in technology, I completed an MSc Demography and Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). I went on work as a postdoc at both LSHTM and LSE before joining St Andrews as a Lecturer in July 2017.

From April 2024 I am serving as Deputy Director (Training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, seconded 50% of my time to the University of Edinburgh.

My research interests are in complexity in global population health, and have a particular interest in women's health, reproduction and life course.  I currently lead projects on the social dimensions of antimicrobial resistance, multimorbidity, and miscarriage.  I primarily use quantitative methods, but am an experienced mixed-methods researcher. 

My current projects:

• Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa- I was the Co-I and analysis lead on the MRC-funded HATUA consortium (2018-21) and the NIHR-funded CARE project (2020-23), and still leading several impact-related activities and PhD projects on this topic. 
• Social Determinants of Miscarriage: I am collaborating on an ERC funded SOC-MISC project (led by Heini Vaisenen at INED), which uses Scottish adminstrative data to better understand social dimensions of miscarriage. 
• Integenerational Continuities in Family Building Behaviours and Inequality: I am a Co-I on the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations Centre. 
• Multimorbidity trajectories and their determinants in Scotland: I am the PI of a data linkage project in Scotland, with partners in Edinburgh and St Andrews.
• I co-lead the RAIZ network which brings together AMR researchers across Latin America: https://raiz-network.org/
• Social burden of AMR - I am an associate researcher with the Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of Sao Paulo, a FAPESP-funded Institute of Research, Diffusion and Innovation. There I work on social dimensions of AMR. 

I help deliver the core quantitative methods teaching for undergraduate geography and sustainable development students in St Andrews, and also deliver research-led teaching in demography, population, health inequalities and life course studies. 

From 2024 I am working as the Deputy Director (training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, which works to develop core and specialist training for social science postgraduate students across Scottish universities.