• Member of the IoH research committee and research theme leader for chronic illness and rehabilitation and leader for the clinical trials research sub-group.

General interests are in the field of clinical trials and trials methods. Areas of particular interest have been rheumatology and orthopaedics.

Currently a member of Population Health Group.

Current teaching commitments are to the MBBS medical degree in the medical school and to the MSc in Health Sciences in the Institute of Health. I currently have responsibility for the research methods stream of teaching in years 1 to 3 of the MBBS medical degree and head up the Introduction to Research Methods and the Statistical Methods for Research units on the MSc.

• Mathematics BSc, First Class, Leicester Polytechnic, 1992
• Medical Statistics, MSc, Leicester University, 1993
• PhD, University of Bristol, 1998
  

• Medical Statistician/Research Associate, Rheumatology Unit, University of Bristol, 1997 – 1998
• Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of East Anglia, 1998 – 2002
• Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of East Anglia, 2002 – 2004
• Reader in Medical Statistics, University of East Anglia, 2004 - Present

• Member of the Arthritis Research Campaign’s clinical trials data monitoring and ethics committee.
• Scientific reviewer for the ARC, HTA and MRC
• Reviewer for Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Rheumatology and British Medical Journal.