His research is primarily qualitative, but he also co-ordinates the analysis of the large Your DNA, Your Say global survey on data-sharing at the Wellcome Genome Campus. He was previously co-lead of the Ethics of Big Data group at CRASSH, and conducted work with the MRC Dementias Platform UK around data sharing in the biomedical sciences. From 2013-15 he was seconded to the PHG Foundation health policy think tank to conduct research on ‘translation’ within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre.