Ed completed his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science at the University of Sheffield and his MSc in Health Population & Society at the London School of Eeconomics. After his studies Ed worked as a Healthcare Researcher at Civitas think tank in Westminster, researching health system financing and structure and doing cross country comparisons with other European countries.

Ed then trained to be a teacher and completed five years working as a secondary and sixth form science teacher and then as 2ic/KS3 coordinator in his department. During this time Ed was involved in a project producing school resources on COVID-19 vaccine safety in collaboration with Queen Mary University, LSHTM’s vaccine confidence project and the Stephen Hawking Foundation. Ed was also involved in climate advocacy, working with the National Education Union to put together a blueprint for other school to use in declaring a climate emergency and organising conferences on climate change for teachers.

At the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Ed currently works across a variety of subject areas including long COVID, the experiences of managers and family carers in care homes, migration, autism and social media monitoring for social care. With colleagues, Ed has recently developed the Catalogue of Social Care Data (CASCID).