Statistical insight and evidence

Quantitative research, survey analytics and data-quality consultancy for public, private and non-profit organisations.I help organisations clarify research questions, choose suitable methods, analyse complex survey and administrative data, and turn findings into clear, usable outputs.

Project-based quantitative support for organisations that need experienced analytical input without a full-time data lead. This includes research design, survey and administrative data analysis, process improvement, reporting tools and data-quality checks.

Applied quantitative research, survey analysis and statistical consultancy across universities, charities, local government, research institutes and private-sector organisations.

SINE Research is led by Dr Harry Taylor, a Manchester-based quantitative researcher with 18 years’ experience.For all enquiries, email: [email protected]

Services

SINE Research provides senior quantitative research and data consultancy on a project basis.This can range from a short methods review or data-quality audit to a full analysis project, reporting workflow or ongoing associate consultant support.

Data lead support

Support at the start of a project, when you need to clarify the problem, define the research questions, review available data, choose suitable methods, or plan the analysis.

Quantitative analysis

Analysis of survey, administrative and research datasets, including data cleaning, crosstabs, weighting, statistical modelling, charts, tables and written interpretation.

Secure and sensitive data

Support with projects involving secure, sensitive or restricted-access data, drawing on Dr Harry Taylor’s ONS Accredited Researcher status & experience working in research settings.

Survey tools and workflows

Practical tools to make survey analysis faster and easier to repeat, including Excel outputs, R scripts, Shiny dashboards, automated reports and reusable analysis workflows.

Data quality and bot detection

Reviewing survey data for duplicate, low-effort, suspicious, AI-assisted or unreliable responses, with clear documentation of checks, decisions and cleaning rules.

Process improvement and automation

Reviewing research and survey processes end to end, identifying bottlenecks, duplication and opportunities for automation, and designing practical solutions to make them faster and more efficient.

Selected work & expertise

Much of my consultancy work is confidential or not publicly available, but here are some examples of my published work.Previous outputs include academic articles, book chapters, research reports and blogs on survey methodology, inequality, racism, loneliness, health and online data quality. Selected work includes contributions to questionnaire design, survey administration, data cleaning, weighting, statistical modelling, reporting and interpretation.

Project experience

Recent projects have included:

  • Survey questionnaire consultancy and analysis for a UK charity

  • Process improvement, automated survey analysis workflows, and bot detection for a UX research organisation

  • Local-area statistical modelling of prevalence estimates for health condition

  • Hospitalisation risk model for healthcare company

  • Data cleaning, weighting and analysis for large social surveys

  • Survey data-quality checks for online research

Areas of expertise

  • Survey analysis and questionnaire design

  • Online survey quality and suspicious-response detection

  • Statistical modelling and interpretation

  • Process improvement for research teams

  • Social statistics, inequality and health

  • Survey automation and reporting workflows

  • Data harmonisation, classification, validation and quality checking

About Sine Research

SINE Research is led by Dr Harry Taylor, a Manchester-based quantitative researcher and data consultant with 18 years’ experience in research and analysis across universities, charities, local government, research institutes and private-sector organisations.Harry is an ONS Accredited Researcher, listed on the UK Statistics Authority public register of accredited researchers, with experience working with secure and sensitive research data.He has a PhD in Social Statistics and an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics, both from the University of Manchester.Alongside consultancy work, he is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews. His academic research focuses mainly on ethnic inequalities in health, with wider work on voting behaviour, survey fraud detection and misinformation.Previous organisations Harry has worked with include the University of St Andrews, King’s College London, the Alan Turing Institute, the Runnymede Trust, Spend360, Coupa Software, LCP Consulting, Milton Keynes Council and Luton Borough Council.SINE Research stands for Statistical Insight and Evidence.

Credentials & affiliations

  • PhD in Social Statistics

  • MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics

  • ONS Accredited Researcher

  • Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester

  • Visiting Scholar, University of St Andrews

  • Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Get in touch

For consultancy enquiries, email Harry at [email protected]
or connect on LinkedIn.