My academic leadership spans editorial work, national research governance, funding and peer review, NHS research infrastructure, and research culture. These roles reflect increasing external responsibility for academic judgement, research quality, access to sensitive data, and the development of research environments.
Editorial and scholarly leadership
- Associate Editor, Addiction
- Editorial Board Member, Substance Use: Research and Treatment
National advisory and governance roles
- Expert Member, Confidentiality Advisory Group, Health Research Authority
- Steering Committee Member, Addiction Healthcare Goals
- Steering Group Member, Mental Health Research Incubator
- Data Access Committee Public Member, Eastern England Secure Data Environment
These roles involve contributing independent academic, methodological, governance, and public-interest perspectives to decisions about research priorities, access to sensitive data, and the development of health research.
Research assessment and peer review
- Assessor College, Economic and Social Research Council
- Expert Assessor, Administrative Data Research UK
- Reviewer College, Society for the Study of Addiction
I also regularly review manuscripts for journals across psychiatry, epidemiology, substance use, public health, and health-services research.
Selected journals for which I have served as a peer reviewer
- Addiction
- The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- American Journal of Men’s Health
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- American Journal on Addictions
- Annals of General Psychiatry
- Applied Economics
- BMC Primary Care
- BMC Public Health
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Emerging Trends in Drugs Addictions and Health
- Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
- Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
- Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
- International Journal for Equity in Health
- The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
- Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
- Journal of Psychopharmacology
- PLOS Global Public Health
- Psychological Medicine
- Psychological Services
- Scientific Reports
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Substance Abuse Research and Treatment
- Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy
Research infrastructure and enabling leadership
- Deputy Lead, North London NHS Foundation Trust Research Database
Through the Research Database, I help enable ethically governed research using routinely collected mental-health records. My work spans research development, data governance, methodological support, collaboration with NHS and academic researchers, and efforts to improve harmonisation and access across mental-health research data infrastructures.
I also work with colleagues at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to support harmonisation across CRIS sites, including approaches that make cross-site replication and comparative studies easier to undertake.
Research culture and institutional leadership
At UCL, I contribute to initiatives aimed at improving research culture, equity, researcher development, and the experience of early-career colleagues.
- Culture Change Action Group Lead, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
- LGBTQ+ Equity Action Group, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
- Committee Member, Child and Young People’s Mental Health ECR Network, UCL
Additional contributions
- Public Member, British Society for Immunology Patient and Public Involvement Network
- Reviewer Development Scheme, National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Personal Tutor, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
- Certified Instructor, The Carpentries
These activities complement my wider research leadership through contributions to inclusive research environments, public involvement, reproducible research practice, teaching, and researcher development.