James is a meta-researcher interested in drug and device development. His ongoing projects include prediction of drug approval, improving tools for preclinical data analysis, and assessing COVID-19 trial characteristics (stage 1 registered report accepted protocol here). He is part of a pan-European team funded by the European Commission to investigate the clinical evidence supporting medical device use in Europe (CORE-MD).

He is interested in open/reproducible science practices and is a Reproducible Research Oxford (RROX) Fellow.  He teaches a workshop on Open Science for Postgraduate students in NDORMS, has contributed to materials for an introductory course on simulations in R and is a Software Carpentries instructor.