Sarah Dickinson

BSc (Hons) Psychology (2010)

Project Manager / Administrator

 Phone: +44 (0)113 206 7628

Email: s.dickinson@leeds.ac.uk

Sarah joined the group in June 2015 as a Project Manager, combining her practical knowledge and experience of health research and administration skills. Sarah completed a BSc in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University and before this role, she was employed as a Research Assistant helping to establish, market and deliver project work in a Patient Reported Outcomes work stream. Prior to this, she organised and managed a variety of projects to improve the readability of pharmaceutical literature, which involved arranging, conducting and analysing qualitative and quantitative interviews in the UK and US.

Sarah plays a proactive role in the delivery of a range of studies and is responsible for the set-up and maintenance of single and multi-centre studies. Other duties include supporting administrative tasks required for clinical research, participant recruitment, data collection and collation; maintaining study documentation, monitoring study progress and feeding back updates to the local and wider team.

Recent Presentations and Publications

  • Absolom K, Warrington L, Hudson E, Hewison J, Morris C, Holch P, Carter R, Gibson A, Holmes M, Clayton B, Rogers Z, McParland L, Conner M, Glidewell L, Woroncow B, Dawkins B, Dickinson S, Hulme C, Brown J, Velikova G. Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial of eRAPID: eHealth Intervention During Chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jan 8:JCO2002015. doi: 10.1200/JCO.20.02015. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33417506.
  • Holch P, Absolom K, Gibson A, Routledge J, Rogers Z, Holmes M, Dickinson S, Peacock R, Murphy A, Henry A, Franks K, Walker K, McParland L, Brown J and Velikova G (February 2020). A pilot randomised trial of online self‐monitoring of adverse events during pelvic radiotherapy using eRAPID (electronic patient self‐Reporting of Adverse‐events: Patient Information and aDvice). In: The British Psychosocial Oncology Society Edinburgh. Psycho-Oncology, pp. 1-33
  • Warrington L., Absolom K., Holmes M., Clayton B., Rogers Z., Dickinson S., Gibson A., Conner M., Kellar I. and Velikova G. (March 2019). “You know it’s not just a waste of time, somebody’s looking at it”. Patient engagement with online symptom reports during chemotherapy (eRAPID)—The importance of clinician use of data. In: The British Psychosocial Oncology Society Chester. Psycho-Oncology, pp.1-31.
  • Peacock R, Holmes M, Absolom K, Warrington L, Rogers Z, Gibson A, Dickinson S, Clayton B and Velikova G (March 2019). “I would say the worst of it for me was the emotional side-effect”. Patients’ views of electronic symptom monitoring during chemotherapy. In The British Psychosocial Oncology Society’s (BPOS) Annual Conference. Vol. 28 (suppl S2.). Pp 9-22. Chester: Psycho-oncology.
  • Velikova G., Absolom K., Pini S., Holch P., Warrington L., Holmes M., Gibson A., Rogers Z., Dickinson S., Carter R., Clayton B., Davidson S., Routledge J., Franks K. and Henry A. June 2018. eRAPID: electronic patient self-Reporting of Adverse-events: Patient Information and aDvice. Patient recruitment and retention in pilot and randomised studies in oncology. In: The PROMs conference, Birmingham.
  • Gibson A, Holch P, Carter R, Clayton B, Dickinson S, Davidson S, et al. Development of online patient advice for the self-management of low-level radiotherapy and chemotherapy related toxicities (eRAPID): involvement of patients and staff. Psycho-Oncologia. 2017;26(suppl 2):10–28.
  • Holch P, Holmes M, Rogers Z, Dickinson S, Clayton B, Davidson S, Routledge J, Glennon J, Henry A, Franks K, Velikova G. (16th March 2017) The acceptability and feasibility of eRAPID (Electronic patient self-Reporting of Adverse-events: Patient Information and aDvice) in pelvic radiotherapy for cancer: Views of patients relatives and staff. In The British Psychosocial Oncology Society’s (BPOS) Annual Conference. Vol. 26 (suppl 2.). Pp 10-28. Oxford: Psycho-oncology
  • Rogers Z, Holch P, Holmes M, Davidson S, Routledge J, Henry A, Franks K, Gilbert A, Dickinson S, Velikova G. (March 2016) Healthcare Professional (HCP) attitudes to the implementation of eRAPID (Electronic patient self-Reporting of Adverse-events: Patient Information and aDvice) during and after pelvic radiotherapy: A qualitative interview study. In The British Psychosocial Oncology Society’s (BPOS) Annual Conference Vol. 25. pp 1-22. Cambridge: Psycho-Oncology
  • Holmes M, Holch P, Rogers Z, Dickinson S, Davidson S, Routledge J, Henry A, Franks K, Gilbert A, Velikova G. (March 2016) Patient and relatives attitudes to the implementation of eRAPID (Electronic patient self-Reporting of Adverse-events: Patient Information and aDvice) during and after pelvic radiotherapy: A qualitative interview study. In The British Psychosocial Oncology Society’s (BPOS) Annual Conference. Vol. 25 pp 1-22. Cambridge: Psycho-Oncologye
  • Smith A, Dickinson S, Arber M. (2015) A pragmatic review of patient satisfaction and testosterone replacement therapy. In Society for Endocrinology BES Edinburgh: Bioscientifica, 38. p P381

Professional Activities
Sarah is the current Secretary of the British Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS)