Matthew has experience in applying advanced statistical methods to answer epidemiological research questions regarding cancer patient health outcomes. His research involves investigating the patient and healthcare system interactions, evaluating interventions to reduce inequalities, and recommending key policy decisions.

In 2021, he received the Better Methods, Better Research award, jointly funded by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute of Health Research. During this 3-year programme he will advance methods in causal inference (e.g., targeted maximum likelihood estimation) and produce research for wider dissemination and reproducibility.

Matthew has a background in Mathematics and Statistics. He obtained his undergraduate degree (BSc) from Nottingham and a Masters (MSc) in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Following this, in 2017, he was awarded the Cancer Research UK Studentship in Cancer Survival, thereby funding his doctoral research on the socioeconomic inequalities in survival of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma; he completed his PhD in 2021.

Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Biostatistics within the Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network at the LSHTM.

Matthew engages in the wider university community and has previously sat on the Student Representive Council for the position of Vice President for Doctoral Students.