I was originally born in London, where I lived until I was 13.  My family then moved to Galway in The Republic of Ireland.  Prior to joining the University of Wolverhampton in 2012 I previously held positions in The University of St Andrews and NUI, Galway.

Statistical modelling, especially of count data, with particular emphasis on zero-modified data and assessment of model fit.

I am a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a member of the International Statistical Modelling Society

Contribution to Government Review

1. Pre-Pack Empirical Research: Characteristic and Outcome Analysis of Pre-Pack Administration.Final report to the government review. (The Graham Review). (April 2014). Co-author with responsibility for designing and implementing the statistical model.

Peer Reviewed Papers

2. A Graphical Tool for Assessing the Suitability of a Count Regression Model. (with Einbeck, J.) Austrian Journal of Statistics (2019) (in press)

3. A new and intuitive test for zero-modification (with Einbeck, J.) Statistical Modelling (2018) doi 1471082X1876227

4. Stopped sum models and proposed variants for citation data (with Low, W.J. and Thelwall, M.) Scientiometrics (2016)

5. Mendeley readership Altmetrics for medical articles: An analysis of 45 fields, (with Thelwall, M). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67,(8),Pages 1967-1972 (2016)

6. Does research with statistics have more impact? The citation rank advantage of structural equation modelling,(with Thelwall, M). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67,(5), Pages 1233-1244 (2016)

7. The Misuse of The Vuong Test For Non-Nested Models to Test for Zero-Inflation. Economics letters Volume 127, Pages 51 - 53 (2015)

8. Implications of applied best management practice for peatland forest harvesting.(With Healy, Finnegan and Regan) Ecological Engineering. Pages 12-26, (2014)

9. Regression for citation data: An evaluation of different methods (With Thelwall, M). Journal of Informetrics, 8(4), Pages 963-971. (2014)

10. Distributions for cited articles from individual subjects and years. (With Thelwall, M). Journal of Informetrics, 8(4), Pages 824-839. (2014)

11. Chemical amendment of pig slurry: control of runoff related risks due to episodic rainfall events up to 48 hours after application. (with O'Flynn, Fenton, Hoekstra, Troy and Healy)Environmental Science and Pollution Research 20: Pages 6019 - 6027. (2013)

12. Impact of pig slurry amendments to control phosphorus losses in laboratory runoff boxes under simulated rainfall. (with O' Flynn, Fenton and Healy) Journal of Environmental Management Volume 113, Pages 78 - 84 (2012)

Refereed Conference Papers

13. A New Algorithm for Zero-Modified Models Applied to Citation Counts. (With Shahmandi, M. and Thelwall, M.) In: Proceedings of the 17^th Iinternational  Conference  On Scientiometrics  &I nfometrics (2019) (In Press)

14. Testing for zero--modification relative to a negative--binomial distribution. In: Wood, S. (ed) Proceedings of the
33rd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Vol. II},. University of Bristol. (2018)

15. Sample Quantiles corresponding to mid p-values for zero-modification tests (with Einbeck, J.) In: Proceedings of the
32nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Vol. I},. University of Groningen. (2017)

16. The prevalence of leadership over management features amongst construction project managers in the UAE  (with AlShamisi, H.A., Chinyio, E., Oloke, D., Mushatat, S., Wilson, P., Ankrah, N. and Kpamma, Z.E.) {\it Proceedings of the
West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER)}. Accra, Ghana. (2017)

17. On statistical testing and mean parameter estimation for zero-modification in count data regression (with Einbeck, J.) Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Vol. I, University of Rennes. (2016)

18. A diagnostic plot for assessing model fit in count data models. (with Einbeck, J.) Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Vol. I, University of Rennes. (2016)

19. Variations of compound models. (with Low, W.J. and Thelwall, M) Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Vol. II, University of Rennes. (2016)

20. The Christmas Eve Test: A Simple Test for Number-Inflation or Number-Deflation. (with Einbeck, J.) Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Vol. II, University of Linz. (2015)

21. The Misuse of The Vuong Test For Non-Nested Models to Test for Zero-Inflation. In Kneib, T. ed. Proceedings of the 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, University of Göttingen, (2014)

22. A Simultaneous Assessment of Article Citation Factors Using a Combined Statistical Model. (with Didegah, F., Thelwall, M.) 4th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (2013)

23. Zero Augmentation: A method for fitting zero-modified count models that allows both zero-inflation and zero deflation. In Bowman, A. ed. Proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, University of Glasgow. (2010)

24. A New Approach to Choosing Between Models: The Dragnet Test. In Eilers, P. ed. Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Universiteit Utrecht. (2008)

25. Bias Estimation of p-values in Analytic and Simulated Cox Tests for Nested and Non-Nested Models. In Eilers, P. ed. Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Universiteit Utrecht. (2008)

26.  A Hybrid Test for Non-Nested Models. In del Castillo J, Espinal A, Puig P eds. Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Barcelona (2007)

Other Publications

27. Project MindReader: Reading Using Affordable BCI (with Loizides, F., Naughton, L., Loizou, M., Yang, S.).  In: Bernhaupt R., Dalvi G., Joshi A., K. Balkrishan D., O’Neill J., Winckler M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2017. INTERACT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10516. Springer. (2017)  doi:  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_49

28. The Extra-ordinariness of Everyday Life on the Home Front: Women and Crime in Wartime Crewe, Cheshire 1914-18 (with D.J. Cox); Proceedings of the Women's History Network Annual Conference - Home Fronts: Gender, War and Conflict University of Worcester (2014).

29. What Use Might mathematics Education be to University Mathematics Teachers?(with J.C. Appleby, J.M. Ekins, C. Hill, S.K. Houston); Proceedings of the Undergraduate MathematicsTeaching Conference, Sheffield-Hallam University (2000).

30. The Kilkerrin/Clonberne Social Audit  Galway Rural Development Association. (1999)