Ranked globally and nationally in top 0.2% for reads on The Conversation (UK 36^th out of 23,022; globally 122^nd out of 90,953).

Now on editorial board of Scientific Data and guest editor for special collection "Text and speech corpora for natural language processing" for Springer Nature.

My Erdös number is 5.

Google Scholar metrics for end-2024:

h-index 42; g-index 88; publication years 39; cites: 8086; cites for most-cited paper 790; mean cites/paper 35; mean cites/year 213; papers >500 cites 2; papers >250 cites 6; papers >100 cites 23; papers >10 cites/year 15.

Interested in finding a student who would use corpus linguistic techniques to analyse past pandemic responses, e.g. to 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics

Currently active projects:

1. Tempo & mode in the evolution of RNA viruses.  PhD student Hanouf Alhamdan funded by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2. Corpus linguistic analysis of discourse surrounding vaccine hesitancy, with Prof Elena Semino (Lancaster) and others.  Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council: grant ref. ES/V000926/1
3. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: Herpesvirales working group.

1. Vaccine hesitancy (esp. 19th century)
2. RNA virus evolution
3. BioFutures
4. Taxonomy of Herpesvirales
5. Societal response to the English Sweat (15th-16th century)

1. Fellow, Centre for Social Futures (formerly ISF)
2. Herpesvirales Working Group, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

1. BIOL243 Medical Microbiology
2. BIOL275 Bioinformatics
3. BIOL313 Proteins: Structure, Function & Evolution (convener)
4. BIOL387 Biosciences Research Project (deputy convener)
5. BIOL445 Bioinformatics (convener)

Economic & Social Research Council:  Corpus linguistic analysis of discourse surrounding vaccine hesitancy (ES/V000926/1) 2021-2024 - post-project writing phase

Global Impact Fund, Friends of Lancaster University in America:  Sequencing of 4 isolates of Crithidia parasite 2024-2025

NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership 2025-2029