A statistician, his interests are in modeling in sport, maintenance and reliability, and corrosion engineering.
He advised the Press Association and the Football Association on the development of the Actim Index: the "official player rating system of the Premier League and Championship".
[2] His thesis concerned the statistical modelling of metallic corrosion, and the application of extreme value theory.
He was appointed as Professor of Applied Statistics by Salford in 2008.
[3] He is the lead editor of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.