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I am a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity (CANDY) group. I am also the Research Centre Leader for the Psychology in Education Research Centre.
I love fitting advanced statistical models to existing large and complex datasets (eg, longitudinal cohort studies or administrative data). My substantive expertise is child and adolescent development; specifically special educational needs and mental health.
I am interested in hearing from potential PhD students who would like to develop projects on the following:
I am open to supervising projects that rely on primary data collection, secondary data analysis, or a mix of both!
I lead the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity (CANDY) Group; we focus on special educational needs and mental health during childhood and adolescence.
We love quantitative data-in fact we love big datasets! A key strength of our group is longitudinal modelling of large epidemiological and administrative datasets. We use big data to study:
Analysis Keywords: Longitudinal Modelling, Latent Class Analysis, Growth Curve Modelling, Mixture Modelling, Structural Equation Modelling, Factor Analysis, Mediation Analysis, Latent Class Growth Modelling, Multilevel Modelling, Measurement Invariance, Twin Modelling, Polygenic Scoring, Genome-Wide Association Study, Network Analysis, Propensity Score Matching.
Datasets: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, Millennium Cohort Study, Manchester Language Study, Twins Early Development Study, British Cohort Study, Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network, Born in Bradford Study, National Pupil Database, Police National Computer.