Serena McCluskey

Research Fellow

 Serena's research interests are focussed on improving health outcomes via psychosocial intervention, and delivering training in this area for health professionals.

Serena completed a BSc in Psychology in 1998, following which she took up her first research post at the University of Huddersfield. Serena worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Behavioural Sciences on a variety of different projects relating to psychosocial factors and sickness absence due to musculoskeletal disorders. In 1999 she was appointed as a Research Psychologist at Hope Hospital, Salford where she managed a project funded by the Health and Safety Executive investigating the psychosocial obstacles to recovery from musculoskeletal disorders at work. This was the subject of her PhD. Serena completed her thesis in 2003 and was awarded her doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in 2004.

Following this, Serena was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Public Health Research at the University of Salford. Her programme of research was primarily concerned with health inequalities and longitudinal analyses of population health. In 2004 Serena secured funding from the Department of Health to carry out an examination of the effectiveness of population screening at reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors and inequalities in morbidity and mortality, focussing particularly on women and South Asian populations. Serena was also part of a team at Salford who were awarded research funding from NICE to carry out a systematic review of physical activity interventions in the workplace and the psychosocial factors associated with uptake.

Serena joined the Psychosocial Oncology group based at St James's University Hospital in Leeds in October 2007. Her work within the group will largely be based around developing a consultant training programme which will facilitate addressing quality-of-life issues in oncology.

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