I completed my undergraduate degree in psychology and philosophy at the University of Oxford, followed by a MSc and PhD in health psychology at the University of Southampton. I then completed postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford and University of Pennsylvania, working across public health and primary care, clinical pharmacology, and psychiatry. I took up a lectureship at Bristol in the Department of Experimental Psychology (now the School of Psychological Science). I currently co-direct the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group and am a Programme Lead within the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit.

I have a long-standing interest in the factors that influence research quality, and the implementation of approaches at multiple levels of the research system that can improve this. This led to me co-founding the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN; www.ukrn.org) in 2019. I am now Chair of the UKRN Supervisory Board, and lead a major project funded by Research England to accelerate the uptake of open research practices across the UK HE sector. I am also currently Chair of the MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board.