I am a researcher in computational policy modelling and AI Governance Lead at City Business AI (Traavu Ltd). I build agent-based models that test how a policy distributes access, delay and protection across a real population, including IPS-England, a model of England’s SEND identification and assessment pathway, and the GRID Observatory, on safeguarding underreporting in specialist SEND schools. My path runs through investigative journalism, health data infrastructure at Orodata Science in Nigeria, and practice in specialist SEND education. I am a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship nominated candidate hosted at Leeds Beckett Law School.

Researcher at LASTIG lab (https://www.umr-lastig.fr)

I have been involved in agent-based modelling since the early nineties with a consistent attention to methdological improvement, institutional development and empirical issues. My mission is that ABM should be a routinely accepted research method (with a robust methodology) across the social sciences. To this end I have built diverse models and participated in research projects across economics, law, medicine, psychology, anthropology and sociology. I took a DPhil in economics on adaptive firm behaviour and then was involved in two research projects on money management and farmer decision making. Since 2006 I have worked at the Department of Sociology (now the School of Media, Communication and Sociology) at the University of Leicester. I was involved in the founding of JASSS and (more recently RofASSS https://rofasss.org) and have regularly served on the review panels for international conferences in the ABM community.