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Research

Prediction in the social sciences

How a focus on prediction can lead to better understanding.

Social networks

Humans are a social species, being influenced by the thoughts and behaviours of people in their networks. Characterising these networks, and getting data on them, is…

Studying the number of children people want and have

There is huge variation in the number of children people (would like to) have over time / across the globe / within countries. I try to study the determinants of this…

Visualisation in research

Visualisation is key in any project involving datapoints. Yet the reader is not ‘showered in graphical displays’ [Anscombe, 1973]. I am an active promotor of the use of…

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

Humans are a weird species.

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation

My research in the past has focussed on variation in human height. In particular, how evolutionary processes have been and are shaping variation in stature. I tried to…

Research

Prediction in the social sciences

Social networks

Studying the number of children people want and have

Visualisation in research

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation

Latest content

Quantifying the postponement in the age at first attempt to conceive and its consequences

Falling Fertility - Fears, Foundations and Fixes

Microsimulation reveals that medically assisted reproduction is unlikely to compensate for cohort fertility decline due to increasing maternal ages