Richard is a health and social care researcher at the University of Surrey. He was awarded a Surrey Future Fellowship in April 2023 to develop a programme of research on the use of ‘carebots’ (chatbots and other artificial technologies) to support the health and wellbeing of older adults. 

Prior to this role, Richard worked as a Research Fellow on The PALLUP Study – Improving home based palliative care for frail elders. Richard has experience as a mixed methods researcher, previously working as a Senior Research Officer at the Office for National Statistics, and has training in qualitative and quantitative social research methods.