Leadership & Recognition
My wider academic roles span editorial work, research governance and assessment, research infrastructure, and institutional leadership.
MINDSET programme leadership
I established and lead MINDSET, setting its intellectual and methodological direction and developing the collaborations, funding, data, governance, and training relationships needed to deliver it. The programme is deliberately collaborative: researchers, trainees, partner organisations, and people with lived experience shape individual questions, methods, interpretation, and practical use within a coherent long-term agenda.
Editorial, advisory & governance leadership
Editorial leadership
Associate Editor, Addiction
Editorial Board Member, Substance Use: Research and Treatment
National and regional research governance
Expert Member, Confidentiality Advisory Group, Health Research Authority
Steering Committee Member, Addiction Healthcare Goals
Steering Group Member, NIHR Mental Health Research Incubator
Data Access Committee Public Member, Eastern England Secure Data Environment
Task & Finish Group Member, Administrative Data Research UK
Public Member, British Society for Immunology Patient and Public Involvement Network
Research assessment
Assessor College, Economic and Social Research Council
Expert Assessor, Administrative Data Research UK
Reviewer College, Society for the Study of Addiction
Expert Reviewer, Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network
Reviewer Development Scheme, National Institute for Health and Care Research
Research infrastructure and skills development
Deputy Lead, North London NHS Foundation Trust Research Database
Certified Instructor, The Carpentries
Research culture & institutional leadership
At UCL, I contribute to research culture, equity, and researcher development through:
- 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
- Personal Tutor, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
Scholarly service
I regularly review manuscripts across psychiatry, epidemiology, substance use, public health, and health-services research. The journal list below is generated from my ORCID peer-review record.
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
See also research, people and partnerships, and teaching and supervision.