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Dr Richard Gunton

Richard

Senior Lecturer In Data Science

Email: r.gunton@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Gunton

Profile

Dr Richard Gunton PhD (Leeds) MA (Cantab) is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science.

Following his PhD at the University of Leeds, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (France).  He has also worked in Australia, with a stint at Charles Darwin University and participation in a project of the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He then worked as Research Fellow in statistics and modelling at Sciteb Ltd, a management consultancy in London. 

Teaching

DAT6501: AI and Statistical Data Analysis

IOT592W: Solutions Development and Quality

Research

Research Interests:

Richard's research interests are broad, ranging from philosophy of science through to policy evaluation and ethics. His early research was in ecology, including vegetation science and community ecology. More recently, he has developed an environmental policy tool, the Pluralistic Evaluation Framework. Richard’s current work focuses on developing this for use in business and other areas of policy-making, and clarifying the nature of environmental goods, values and obligations.

Publications

Gunton RM, van der Stoep J, Araya YM, Jochemsen H (in review) Beyond the triple bottom line: towards transformative change for sustainable food systems.

Beale NCL, Gunton RM, Bashe KL, Battey HS, MacKay RS. (2024) Dynamics of value-tracking in financial markets. J. Dynamics & Games. doi:10.3934/jdg.2024003.  

Gunton RM (2023) What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7:979818

Gunton RM, Basden A, Hejnowicz AP, van Asperen E, Christie I, Hanson DR, Hartley SE (2022) Valuing beyond economics: a pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policy-making. Ecological Economics 196:107420

Gunton RM, Stafleu MD, Reiss MJ (2021) A general theory of objectivity: contributions from the Reformational philosophy tradition. Foundations of Science 27:941-955

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