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Staff Profile

Dr Steph Clutterbuck

Trial Manager

Background

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

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.

 

Publications