Primary Care & Health Sciences

After completing A levels in Maths, Further Maths, French and History, I studied Mathematics at Lancaster 1982-1985. I then accepted a SERC funded research assistant post to develop techniques for modelling irregularly spaced climatological data for three years, while studying part time for an MPhil. In 1988 I was appointed as a lecturer in statistics in the Mathematics Department at Keele. I left in 2003, but returned as a Teaching Fellow for 2004-2007.

For the next two years I worked as a lecturer in statistics at the North Wales Clinical School in Wrexham, before being appointed to Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics within the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre in 2009.

I am interested in the modelling of longitudinal and time series data. The former includes applications of  Linear Mixed Models and GEEs to longitudinal survey data collected in the Centre, while the latter can encompass  intervention analysis and  segmented regression applied to prescription data. The applications of  multivariate longitudinal data involving a mixture of binary, ordinal and continuous data is currently being explored.

I am also a Front Line Adviser for Medical Statistics for the West Midlands Research Design Service (Keele Hub).

I support the statistical component of the undergraduate medical degree via StatsDirect lab sessions and the Year 3 SSC. I am also involved with the Evidence Based Practice Workshop and MMedSci programmes.

I also regularly attend the Conference for Teachers of  Medical Statistics, "Burwalls".