Abstract
I am a PhD-trained behavioural researcher and data scientist with four years in national healthcare regulation, combining rigorous statistical foundations including causal inference, Bayesian modelling, experimental design, with hands-on experience building and evaluating AI systems where the consequences of error are real. My path was non-linear by design: clinical psychology settings, doctoral neuropsychology research, and national-scale NHS data work each added a layer that purely technical routes miss. I am drawn to problems where the statistical question and the human question are inseparable. Equally at home designing a psychophysics paradigm, a national patient survey, or an LLM evaluation framework — the common thread is rigorous measurement under real-world constraints.
AI Evaluation Framework · Live · Feb 2026
EvalLayer
Built to address a gap identified during LLM work in regulated healthcare: evaluation pipelines were informal, undocumented, and impossible to reproduce. Implements deterministic, normalised, and LLM-as-judge validation with the judge model independently configurable from the inference model. Statistical layer includes confidence intervals on pass rates, consistency scoring, and paired model comparison.
Stateful Multi-Agent LLM Architecture · In development · Jan 2026
Common Ground
A multi-agent LLM system designed to explore statefulness, consistency, and controllability in model behaviour. Uses a three-model architecture: a primary generation model operating within persistent hidden state, a state-tracking model updating variables from user interaction, and a judge model for validation and safety. Includes local, offline inference via quantised models.
| Period | Role | Contribution | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
2023–present | Data Scientist / Senior Researcher Care Quality Commission | Led end-to-end redevelopment of the Children & Young People NHS Patient Survey and held ownership of national NHS patient surveys: sampling strategy, contact design, cognitive testing, question development, QA, and publication. Findings covered by the BMJ, Guardian, Sky News, and BBC. | |
2023–2025 | Data Science Graduate ONS Data Science Campus | Competitive cross-government programme: Python, ML, NLP, reproducible analytical pipelines, AWS/Azure, data science ethics. Selected alongside a small cohort from across government departments. | |
2022–2023 | Researcher Care Quality Commission | Designed selection weighting methodology for an ethnic minority sample boost; analysis revealed health inequalities masked by broad ethnic category aggregation, shared with NHS England and the cross-government survey research group. Contributed to cognitive testing and question design for the Adult Inpatient Survey. Translated legacy SPSS pipelines into reproducible R and Python workflows; maintained internal team R package. | |
2022 | Consultant Open University | Advised on methodology design for a study examining how movement of people with DCD is perceived by those with ASD; ensured diagnostic criteria alignment with DSM standards; recruited participants through DCD community groups. | |
2018–2022 | Doctoral Researcher University of Surrey | Four years of original quantitative research: MRS and fMRI neuroimaging, psychophysics, Bayesian computational modelling. Designed experimental paradigms to disentangle bottom-up information processing from top-down executive inhibitory control. First evidence of GABAergic dysregulation in DCD; four first-author peer-reviewed publications. |
Selected media coverage of research findings
Peer-reviewed · First author throughout
Sensory atypicality in developmental coordination disorder is associated with cortical excitatory-inhibitory imbalance
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Audio-visual multisensory integration and haptic perception in adults with developmental coordination disorder
Human Movement Science · doi:10.1016/j.humov.2024.103180
Exploring Executive Functioning of Adults With Probable Developmental Coordination Disorder Using the Jansari Assessment of Executive Functions
Developmental Neuropsychology · doi:10.1080/87565641.2023.2264424
The Nature and Influence of Sensory Processing Deficits in Developmental Coordination Disorder
Doctoral thesis, University of Surrey · Thesis ↗
Top-down inhibitory motor control is preserved in adults with developmental coordination disorder
Developmental Neuropsychology · doi:10.1080/87565641.2021.1966431