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Dr Emma Howarth is a Senior Research Associate in the innovation and evaluation of population health interventions theme. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating interventions and services to improve children’s mental health outcomes. She has a particular interest in those interventions aimed at ‘high risk’ groups, with specific expertise regarding children’s exposure to hostile, coercive and violent family environments. She is currently leading on a Delphi study to identify priority features of a comprehensive community based child and adolescent mental health service; a mixed methods case study evaluation of the implementation of CYP-IAPT in Cambridgeshire, and a mixed method…
Dr Mike Radford trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford graduating in 2000. After house officer posts in Oxford and Chelmsford he completed his GP training in Chelmsford in 2004. He became a partner at Tennyson House Surgery, Chelmsford in 2005 and has been a GP trainer since 2010, regularly teaching medical students within the practice Mike joined the University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit in September 2015 as a CLAHRC Primary Care fellow and worked on the NIHR funded MelaTools programme which aims to improve timely diagnosis of melanoma by researching the use of skin self- monitoring apps by…
Caroline Lee is a Research Associate at the Institute of Public Health, with over 20 years’ experience in project and programme evaluation and research across policy areas, including education, employment, childcare, health and public health. Recent projects include: reviewing the potential of time credit systems for improving public health; developing age-friendly rural communities: the contribution of local participatory planning processes; supporting local commissioners in evaluating the Healthy Fenland Fund; increasing attention to ethnicity and migration within public health; engaging communities in thinking about dementia risk; investigating approaches to peer support for older prisoners; and evaluating a creative participatory workshop approach…
Dr Christine Hill is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine based at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH) with Professor Carol Brayne’s research team. Christine worked previously in clinical medicine and then for 13 years in healthcare management at executive director level in the acute hospitals sector in South Africa and the UK. Christine’s special interests include translation of research into policy and practice, health policy and management, and screening in disease prevention. Christine holds Masters degrees in Business Administration, Law (in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice), Public Health, and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health…
Tine Van Bortel (PhD) is the CLAHRC EoE Principal Investigator of the Prison Mental Health Programme researching into care for older people with dementia in prisons and upon resettlement. She was also co-supervisor and collaborator on the CLAHRC PROMISE (Proactive Management of Integrated Services and Environments for mental health) project. Tine has a background in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Social Sciences & Health, Public Mental Health, Health & Sustainable Development, and a Professional Mental Health Coaching Qualification (FRTC). Her research interests cover public health improvement, promotion and sustainability – both locally and globally – with specific interest and expertise in mental health,…
Rashmi Becker previously gained an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge and has since gained a depth and breadth of professional experience working for central government, the EU institutions and national learning disability and autism social care providers. Witnessing first-hand the challenges and opportunities concerning social care has motivated Rashmi to return to complete a PhD, exploring the commodification of care and implications for people with a learning disability. The 3-year PhD studentship, which commenced in 2015 is funded by CLAHRC East of England and is part of the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage Research Theme.
Dr Ayla Humphrey is Child and Young People’s Lead Psychologist for Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust. She is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and a member of Cambridge Neuroscience Network. She led the development of clinical services for children and families including the first UK holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation service for children with brain injury (CCPNR, Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation); a school-based mental health screening and early intervention program (FAB, Family Happiness and Well-being Project); and Paediatric Psychology Services, Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Ayla's research focuses on early childhood development and early interventions including the…
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He held lectureships in both of these departments in London before moving to Cambridge in 1994. He is also Director of CLASS (Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service), a clinic for adults with suspected AS. He has been awarded prizes from the American Psychological…
Professor Carol Brayne is an epidemiologist and public health physician. Her research programme includes research into dementia, healthy ageing and neuropsychiatric epidemiology. The research is multidisciplinary and the Cambridge team straddles the Department of Public health and Primary Care, and the MRC Biostatics Unit (Led by Dr Fiona Matthews). The MRC study of Cognitive Function and Ageing (CFAS) constitutes a major part of the research of this group. Ageing of the global population will be an area of policy interest for many decades as the numbers of old-old individuals increases dramatically. Carol is also Director of the Cambridge Institute of…
Linda Barnes is Senior Study Coordinator of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies which are population based studies of individuals aged 65 years and over living in the community, including institutions. Linda's research interests are Dementia, healthy ageing and neuropsychiatric epidemiology. Linda worked with Professor Carol Brayne on the Population Dementia Risk Reduction project.
Angela has worked for the University of Cambridge since 2007. As Research PA to Dr Stephen Barclay, Angela joined CLAHRC CP in August 2009 as administrative support to the Palliative/CLAHRC End of Life Care worksteams
James is a Chartered Engineer, with research interests in systems engineering, safety engineering and human factors engineering. His work centres around how these areas can be adapted and adopted to help improve patient safety and quality in the NHS. A particular research focus is in systems safety assessment, using a range of proactive risk assessment techniques to identify and manage risks in the healthcare system. James is a founding member of the Health Foundation's Q Initiative - a long-term endeavour to encourage quality improvement across the NHS.
Dr Mila Petrova background is in psychology, philosophy and literature. She has worked primarily on issues of organisational change and new roles in the health services, end of life care, health information technology, research synthesis (including her PhD on how we transform evidence for the purposes of systematic reviews and other synthesis studies) and health-related values. More recently Mila was a Research Associate at the Palliative and End of Life Care Group of the Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Together with Dr Stephen Barclay, she is completed the “Prepared to Share?” study…
Dr Sarah Hoare is a sociologist whose work explores palliative and end-of-life care. She completed her part CLAHRC-funded PhD on hospital admissions for patients close to the end of life (ACE Study) within the Dementia, Frailty and End of Life Care Theme. Sarah is a member of Cambridge Palliative and End of Life Care Group, and is currently exploring practical ways to facilitate the redesign of community end-of-life care provision. Before joining CLAHRC East of England, Sarah completed an undergraduate degree in Politics and Sociology at the University of Exeter and an MPhil in Educational Research at Trinity Hall, University…
Dr Paul Wilkinson is University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His particular clinical areas of interest are adolescent depression and self-harm. He carries out research into the epidemiology and treatment of depression and self-harm. Paul also leads teaching of psychiatry to clinical medicine students at the University of Cambridge. Paul leading a CLAHRC project which is evaluated the first UK pilot of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for adolescents, by Suffolk local authority family support workers.
Dr Stephen Barclay qualified in 1981 following medical training in Cambridge and Oxford. After GP training in Bristol he started GP work in a market town practice in the Cambridgeshire Fens and then in 1990 moved to a GP practice in Cambridge. He continues to work clinically in both General Practice and Palliative Medicine and is Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the Arthur Rank House hospice and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He leads the teaching of Palliative Care in the School of Clinical Medicine of the University of Cambridge and is Clinical Lead for End of Life Care…
Dr Gemma Clarke is the project lead on the Future Care Study which examines feeding issues at the end of life for those with progressive neurological disease. Previously she has worked on decision-making concerning artificial nutrition for those at risk of lacking capacity, and decisions to stop oral palliative anticancer drugs. Before joining CLAHRC, Gemma completed her PhD at the Institute of Criminology, Gonville and Caius College.
Dr Isabel Clare is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist in the Enduring Disabilities and/or Disadvantage Theme, where, reflecting her clinical experience and one of her main areas of research interest, she leads projects (i) examining the design and delivery of services by Community Learning Disabilities Teams to men and women with learning (intellectual) disabilities and additional mental health and/or behavioural needs, and (ii) investigating the impact of transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) on the aggressive behaviour of people with neurodevelopmental conditions (learning disabilities and/or autism) or acquired brain injury. She is also a Fellow and Tutor at Lucy Cavendish…
Emeritus Professor Tony Holland leads the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage (EDD) theme of the CLAHRC and since 2002 he has held the Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Together with colleagues he established the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (CIDDRG). He has collaborated on research in a broad range of topics including: ageing and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome; the behavioural and psychiatric aspects of Prader Willi Syndrome; the interface between clinical and social care practice and the law including studies relating to…
Dr Terry Dickerson is the CLAHRC East of England Patient Safety Theme Coordinator and Assistant Director, Healthcare Design for the Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre. Terry is a Chartered Engineer with a considerable range of industrial experience and achieved his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 1990.
Dr Louise Lafortune is a Senior Research Associate in the Dementia, Frailty and End of life care theme. She has a background in Neurosciences, Public Health and Ageing, and nine years of industry experience in clinical trial, health economics and outcomes research. Her research interests encompass the development, evaluation and implementation of innovative methods and service delivery models aimed at improving care for individuals with complex health and social care needs, namely frail older people. Concerned with the practical application of research findings for patient benefits, her responsibilities include knowledge synthesis, public health analysis and evaluation of changes in services…
Dr Jane Fleming joined the University of Cambridge’s Department of Public Health and Primary Care in 2000 for training in epidemiology and statistics from a clinical and research background primarily in nursing older people, osteoporosis and fracture prevention. She is a study co-ordinator for the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study, and during her health services research doctorate she expanded the CC75C study’s focus to include a prospective study of falls amongst over-90-year-olds. She has since been leading a project combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine end-of-life care issues from the perspective of very old people and their carers…
Dr Andrew Bateman is Director of Research at The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Affiliated Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; and Chair of United Kingdom Aquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF). He is also Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Theme Lead for the NIHR BrainMIC. In his neurorehabilitation research he aims to draw together two elements stemming from his vocational and academic training in Physiotherapy and Cognitive Neuropsychology. The first is within the field of neuropsychology, at the intersection of vision and motor control, and the second concerns the application of modern psychometric techniques to develop objective measurement in rehabilitation outcomes…
Sam Treacy is currently working on projects focused on older prisoners at the University of Cambridge, as part of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. She has previously worked on research evaluating services and interventions for people with mental health or substance misuse problems, as well as exploring their experiences of stigma and discrimination. Sam also worked within NHS mental health services across community, inpatient and forensic settings for a number of years.
Dr Carrie Allison is a research manager at the Autism Research Centre. Projects she has worked on include: Early Screening for autism at 18 months; Adolescent and Childhood Autism Spectrum Quotient, and the prevalence of autism spectrum conditions in primary schools (CAST).
Dr Howard Ring's background is in research, education and clinical service development in neuropsychiatry and the psychiatry of intellectual disabilities (ID). Howard's research initiatives with CLAHRC included the study of non-pharmacological approaches to epilepsy management in adults with ID and the application of EEG and psychophysiological measures to investigate biological associations of behavioural symptoms in people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Howard also worked on a CLAHRC acceptability and feasibility study seeking to understand if transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulation of heart rate variability can reduce aggression by adults with developmental or acquired brain injury.
Professor John Clarkson is Professor of Engineering Design, Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. He returned to the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in 1995 following a seven-year spell with PA Consulting Group's Technology Division where he was Manager of the Advanced Process Group. He was appointed director of the Engineering Design Centre in 1997 and a University Professor in 2004. John is directly involved in the teaching of design at all levels of the undergraduate course. At PA John gained wide experience of product development with a particular focus on the design of medical equipment and high-integrity systems, where…
Dr Julieta Galante is a Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. In addition to her background as a qualified medical doctor, she has a wide range of research skills. She has conducted randomised trials and systematic reviews in public and mental health, worked on economic evaluations, and analysed data from UK Biobank and Caerphilly population-based cohorts. Julieta has established research interests in preventative medicine and the effects of lifestyle on health. Her main focus has been studying the effects of meditation on mental health, which was the theme of her PhD at Cardiff University. She led…
Professor Peter Jones is Director of the NIHR CLAHRC East of England. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Peter studied anatomy and neurobiology at King’s College, London, and qualified in medicine from Westminster Medical School. He studied at the Bethlem & Maudsley Hospitals and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine before being appointed in 1993 as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry. In 1997 he took up the Chair of Psychiatry in Nottingham, moving to Cambridge in 2000. Peter’s research…
Dr Alexander Komashie joined the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre (EDC) and the CLAHRC CP in 2009 after completing his PhD in Brunel University, UK. His PhD, “Information-Theoretic and Stochastic Methods for Managing the Quality of Service and Satisfaction in Healthcare Systems” proposed the 'E-Track NHS' system which looked at the application of real-time Discrete Event Simulation for improving healthcare system performance. He therefore has a keen interest in the use of the systems approach and particularly the modelling and simulation of healthcare systems. Alexander is currently in the Patient Safety Theme of CLAHRC East of England. His current research project…
Dr Jo Anderson joined CLAHRC in September 2015 as a systematic reviewer. She is currently leading a research team working on developing a community based service model to promote mental health and emotional well-being of children and young people. Dr Anderson is a Chartered Psychologist with background in neuropsychology and health psychology. She had previously worked for Coventry University at Applied Research Centre for Health and Lifestyle Interventions. Her research focused on using new technologies to deliver health interventions to people living with long term health conditions. She developed and evaluated a number of self-management interventions including programmes for people…
Angela joined CLAHRC CP in April 2012 from the East Anglia Hub of the Mental Health Research Network which she managed for four years. Her background is in social care, where she worked as a care manager, and as a team leader for home care in community-based services for older people, run by Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust. She also managed Warboys and District Day Care Centre for older people on behalf of a local charity. Before that, she had worked for seven years at a local water company within the Facilities and Company Secretariat departments. She gained a first degree…