Dr Amy Whitehead 

Senior Statistician

Dr Amy Whitehead is a Senior Statistician within Medicine at the University of Southampton.

I hold a joint position between the Southampton Clinical Trials Unit (SCTU) and the NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) South Central.

I spend the majority of my time helping researchers to apply for grant funding. Providing advice on both statistical and general aspects including, the design of a research project, the sample size calculation and analysis plan, finding funding and help with grant writing.

I am also the statistician on a wide variety of projects, including Phase I through to Phase III in both cancer and non-cancer clinical areas.

 

Qualifications

• BSc, Accounting, Finance and Mathematics, Lancaster University, 2009
• MSc, Statistics, Lancaster University, 2010
• PhD, University of Sheffield, 2017, ‘Sample Size Justifications for Pilot Trials of Publicly Funded Randomised Controlled Trials’

Appointments held

• Senior Statistician