I am a research officer at LSE Complexity based at the Institute of Social Psychology and work on the EU FP7 funded project SOCIONICAL. Comprised of computer scientists, social scientists and emergency services teams, the project looks at the use of ambient intelligence devices in complex socio-technical environments. The latter include scenarios dealing with evacuations from underground rail systems, high rise buildings and stadia and also their interface with surface level road transport networks.

SOCIONICAL Policy Brief May 2010

I teach the quantitative criminology component on SO4M3: Criminological Research Methods 1 course offered in the Sociology department at LSE as part of the M.Sc. Sociology of Crime, Control and Globalisation. Students learn how to use statistical software for analysis of large datasets relating to crime such as the British Crime Surveys. They also learn how to interpret statistical findings in official reports on several contentious topics such as racist offences, criminal careers, fear of crime, new penology and link these to theoretical frameworks.

British Crime Survey: Onset Age of Offences

I completed my PhD at the Open University (UK) in its DDEM  (Design, Development, Environment and Materials) department and was affiliated to the ESRC Innogen Centre, the Complex Systems Group, the Development Policy and Practice Group and the Innovation, Knowledge and Development Centre. My PhD project looked at links between institutions holding stem cell patents granted by the US Patent Office during the years 1997-2007 and compared links created in these networks with corresponding links created through sharing authorships of scientific publications in stem cell research for the years 1990-2007.

Patent Networks in Stem Cell Research

I was a teaching assistant on Dr. Christopher Badcock's undergraduate course SO215: Evolution and Social Behaviour where I also gave a guest lecture on Crime, Genes and Society. My first undergraduate degree was in Zoology and I retain an interest in evolutionary analysis which has important applications in core areas of biomedicine such as population genetics and spread of diseases as well as cultural aspects such as diffusion of innovation, knowledge exchange processes and coping with disasters.

Crime, Genes and Society Guest Lecture Slides

I am currently creating research proposals to study from a cross-cultural perspective, the impact of continuing developments in biomedicine on societies both with respect to devising new research processes as well as introduction of new marketable products. Having initially been trained as a lawyer, I aim to examine these issues using global justice, international governance of bioethics and intellectual property frameworks.

Wellcome Trust, London (July 2007)

In addition to working with the Sociology and Social Psychology departments at LSE, I have also worked on different projects with the Law department, the Centre for Learning Technology, the Methodology Institute and LSE Enterprise.

I am working with researchers at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in developing research proposals on bioethics and innovation issues in biomedicine.

I have been a visiting research fellow at the Open University and will be producing publications based on findings from the PhD project.