Staff Profile
Dr Steph Clutterbuck
Trial Manager
Current Role
I am a Trial Manager in the Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit.
I am responsible for setting up and managing research projects/clinical trials.
Previous Positions
2021-2022: Project Manager, John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Newcastle University
2019-2021: Approvals Officer, Health Research Authority
2015-2019: Clinical Trials Coordinator, R&D, Royal Papworth Hospital
2014-2015: Assistant Trials Manager, Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit, Newcastle University
2013-2014: Research Assistant, Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
2010-2014: PhD Candidate, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
2007- 2010: Research Assistant, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University
Qualifications
2015: PhD Evolutionary Psychology, Newcastle University
2007: BA (Hons) Psychology, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Research Background
I joined the Institute of Healthy & Society (now: Population Health Sciences Institute), Newcastle University in 2007 as a Research Assistant on various projects including a validation study of food portion assessment tool for children (CAFS Study) and a large cluster randomised control trial based in primary care, A&E and criminal justice settings, which compared screening and brief intervention tools for alcohol misuse (SIPs Study).
In 2010, I undertook a PhD at Newcastle University investigating the relationship between childhood adversity and reproductive trajectories via the mechanism of interest in infants in adolescent females. Later, I joined the Academic Psychiatry group in the Institute of Neuroscience (now: Neuroscience, Neurodisability and Neurological Disorders) designing computer based experimental neuropsychological tools to measure processing speed in patients with bipolar depression (ANSWER Pilot). Following this, I moved to the Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit working as an Assistant Trials Manager on trials investigating the effectiveness of various drug therapies for people living with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (SPIRIT Trials).
In 2015, I became a Clinical Trials Coordinator in Research & Development at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge coordinating and setting up various heart, lung and sleep related studies.
In 2019, I joined the Health Research Authority as an Approvals Officer where I processed research ethics applications, organised Research Ethics Committee meetings, documented these meetings and liaised with researchers and committee members to facilitate approval of projects.
In 2022 I worked as a project manager in the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre. I oversee the running of various projects, specifically projects using MRI and artificial intelligence, led by Professor Jordi Diaz Manera.
In 2023 I moved to the Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit setting up and managing research projects and clinical trials as a Trial Manager.
- Davies G, Quinnell TG, Oscroft NS, Clutterbuck SP, Shneerson JM, Smith IE. Hospital outcomes and long-term survival after referral to a specialised weaning unit. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2017, 118(4), 563-569.
- Clutterbuck S, Adams J, Nettle D. Frequent residential relocations cumulatively accelerate menarcheal timing in a sample of English adolescent girls. Journal of Biosocial Sciences 2015, 47(2), 188-202.
- Clutterbuck S, Adams J, Nettle D. Childhood Adversity Accelerates Intended Reproductive Timing in Adolescent Girls without Increasing Interest in Infants. PLoS ONE 2014, 9(1), e85013.