Clare Harley

Research Fellow

 Clare's research interests include: Developing and adapting questionnaires for routine use in clinical practice, testing questionnaires on patients, and discussing them with health professionals. She utilises Rasch and Item-response theory models to improve the questionnaires that are presented to patients, aiming to reduce the number of items and improve item targeting. Clare is involved in the development of an automated computer touch-screen system of questionnaire administration, and is developing methods of information presentation for clinical use. She is also involved in the management of a data bank with the aim of establishing normative data for questionnaires commonly used by the group and relating quality of life to other clinical outcome measures.

Clare joined the Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre in at St James's Hospital Leeds in 2007. She completed her BSc. Psychology (Hons) degree at the University of Plymouth in 1999 and subsequently worked as a research assistant examining individual differences in deductive reasoning. In 2001 she moved to Reading to work for Cognitive Drugs Research, implementing cognitive assessment in clinical drugs trials across Europe. Clare completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Reading in 2006, examining the relationship between cognitive capacity and human movement control in elderly and stroke patients. In 2005 she took up a teaching fellowship at the University of Leeds, at the Institute of Psychological Sciences then moved to a research position at the University of Bradford's Optometry department in 2006. During her time at Bradford she was involved in studies examining the relationship between human movement and visual acuity in elderly, and supervised a PhD student examining the psychological impact of receiving false positive referrals to ophthalmic services at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

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