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Biography

Prior to joining UCL, I worked in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. For four years I was involved in facilitating access for academic users to large (primarily census but increasingly non-census), interaction data sets as a research officer for the Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER) project funded by the ESRC. 

Whilst at Leeds I completed my PhD, with a thesis titled "Understanding internal migration in Britain at the start of the 21st Century". Part of this work involved developing a national geodemographic area classification based on the characteristics of migrants and migration flows; a classification which has used as a framework for monitoring changes in the patterns of internal migration in Britain between censuses. 

I have also had another career as a secondary school teacher. After completing a degree in geography at Lancaster University and teacher training at the University of Cambridge I worked for three years as a geography teacher at Hedingham School in Essex.

Research Summary

I am a post-doctoral research associate in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London. I am currently working on the migration stream of the Explaining, Modelling & Forecasting Global Dynamics (ENFOLD-ing) project.

My research interests, until now, have principally been in the quantitative analysis of internal migration in the UK, however I am interested in all areas of population geography and demography – particularly the application of statistical, mathematical and GIS techniques in the understanding human spatial patterns and processes.

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