Primary Care & Health Sciences

I gained my BSc Mathematics from the University of Sheffield in 2004, before undertaking an MSc in Biometry at the University of Reading. Following this, I joined the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele in 2005 as a Research Assistant in Biostatistics. In 2006, I began my PhD, entitled “The measurement of locomotor disability in epidemiological studies”, which I completed in 2010.  I took up my current position as a Research Associate in Epidemiology in July 2010.

I am interested in epidemiological methodology, particularly in the fields of musculoskeletal pain and rheumatology. I have particular interests in ordinal regression models and Rasch analysis. I am currently working in the field of diagnosis and prognosis in primary care.

I am a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. I sit on the committee of the RSS Primary Health Care Study Group, and I am currently an Associate Editor for the journal Family Practice.

SSC Research Methods