I'm always interested in talking to potential PhD
students. However, before contacting me, please make
sure you take time to read some of my recent publications to
determine whether our research interests align. I am
primarily a health researcher interested in digital health
technologies. I'm involved with a substantial amount
of health-related NLP work, but also have interests in human
factors, socio-technical issues, and ethics with respect to
health technologies. I am less interested, and would
not be an appropriate primary supervisor for domain-agnostic
machine learning research. Currently, my research
interests are largely centred on mental health and substance
use.
Generally speaking, I tend to value intellectual curiosity
over technical competence (technical skills can be learnt
quite quickly; the same cannot be said for intellectual
curiosity). This means that you do not necessarily
need to have a strong technical background to work with me
(although this is somewhat dependent on the project).
I'm very interested to hear from people with education or
professional experience in psychology, linguistics,
cognitive science, philosophy, public health and the social
sciences.
The first step in applying is reaching out to me with a CV
and a brief outline of your research interests, including
how your interests align with my recent research. This
outline should be around two or three paragraphs.
Please send this to me via email with the subject header
"PhD Enquiry [Kangaroo]". The inclusion of the
animal-related keyword indicates that you have read through
this webpage.
Please note that I do not typically recruit MPhil (research
masters) students as --- in my view --- this degree does not
allow sufficient time to generate really substantive
research outputs for most people.