Methodology Research Unit

 

Unit Lead: Richard Hooper

 

Evaluations – of drugs, devices, behavioural interventions, organisational change, public health interventions, and policy – are the cornerstone of population health research. The example of the COVID epidemic has demonstrated the importance of innovation and efficiency in delivering these evaluations, and sound research methods must lie at the heart of evaluations if they are to have quality and integrity. The Methodology Research Unit (MRU) brings together people with interests and expertise in a number of different methodological areas, and acts as a focus for research activities that together aim for better research through better methods.

 

KEY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

• The Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Methodology Platform: a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, funded by Asthma UK, which aims to develop innovative methods to test and evaluate new ways of doing asthma research. The lead at QMUL is Beth Stuart

• NIHR Research Support Service: funded by the National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR), and part of the NIHR Infrastructure, RSS provides free and confidential advice to health and social care researchers across England who are seeking public or charitable funding for research in health and social care, including advice on research design and research methods. We are proud to be a partner in the RSS Hub delivered by Imperial College London & Partners. The RSS leads at QMUL are Richard Hooper, Jill Russell and Liz Steed.

• The MRC/NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership: a meta-network of institutions, partners and networks working in clinical trials and trial methods research, led from the University of Liverpool. The lead at QMUL is Richard Hooper. QMUL is also one of 12 University partners in TMRP participating in an MRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnership that offers PhD studentships in trial methodology, covering different disciplinary fields
• Other methods research activities, some of which are conducted in partnership with the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, are described further here

 

OUR TEAM

• Claire Chan, Statistician
• Laeti De Abreu Nunes, PhD student
• Saskia Eddy, PhD student
• Miran Epstein, Reader in Medical Ethics
• Carol Fawkes, Health Services Research Officer
• Richard Hooper, Professor of Medical Statistics
• Sandra Jumbe, Health Services Research Officer
• Zeenat Kauroo, RDS London Administrator
• Nadine Marlin, NIHR Doctoral Fellow
• Beverley Nickolls, PhD student
• Clare Relton, Senior Lecturer in Clinical and Public Health Trials
• Clare Robinson, Senior Clinical Trials Statistician
• Jill Russell, Senior Research Fellow
• Ratna Sohanpal, Health Services Research Officer
• Charis Xie, PhD student

 

CONTACT

Emily McLean, e.mclean@qmul.ac.uk

Yvonne Carter Building

58 Turner Street

E1 2AB