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Dr Sarah Cotterill - personal details

Contact details

Role: Research Fellow - Biostatistics

Tel: 0161 206 4567

Location:

Research & Development Support Unit,
D210 Clinical Sciences Building,
Salford Royal NHS FoundationTrust
Stott Lane
Salford
M6 8HD

 

Biography

Sarah completed a PhD at the University of Leeds, Partnership Working in Local Electronic Government. She has an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics and a BA in Politics and Modern History, both from the University of Manchester. She previously worked for many years in the fields of housing, health and community regeneration for local authorities in Manchester and Salford.

Sarah is currently a Research Fellow in biostatistics, an adviser for the NIHR Research Design Service (http://www.rds-nw.nihr.ac.uk), supporting NHS staff and other researchers to prepare high-quality research proposals for submission to nationally competitive funding streams.

Prior to taking up her current post, Sarah worked at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester on an ESRC ventures project, 'Rediscovering the Civic and Achieving Better Outcomes in Public Policy' project. She led a number of field experiments looking at how public and voluntary agencies can promote civic behaviour, including household recycling, food waste collection, charitable donations, internet-based deliberation and community involvement www.civicbehaviour.org.uk

Qualifications

PhD (2007) University of Leeds

MSc (2004) Social Research Methods and Statistics, University of Manchester

BA (1983) Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester

Role

Sarah is a Research Fellow in biostatistics, in the Health Sciences Research Group at the University of Manchester. She is an adviser for the NIHR Research Design  Service (http://www.rds-nw.nihr.ac.uk), supporting NHS staff and other researchers to prepare high-quality research proposals for submission to nationally competitive funding streams.

Teaching

Statistics advice for 4th year medical students’ research projects.

Supervision: Masters of Public Heatlh