Ed completed his master’s in Public Health at the University of Bristol in 2022. His background is in medical sciences and he went on to further study in Graduate Entry Medicine at the University of Warwick. With the Digital Footprints Lab Ed worked on the dissertation supervised by Dr Anya Skatova and Dr Helen Bould which involved investigating the misuse of laxatives within the UK and how the literature could be improved by using shopping data alongside current methodologies.