Ms Claire Reidy BA, MSc
Senior Research Assistant for the REDUCE study
Claire works part time as a Senior Research Assistant in the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education for the REDUCE study using both qualitative and quantitative methods. REDUCE aims to identify feasible, safe, reliable and cost-effective (value for money) ways of helping patients withdraw from long-term antidepressants using a web-based intervention and telephone psychological support.
Evidence demonstrates that the biomedical approach to health is not enabling people to self-manage day-to-day and so novel, holistic and evidence-based approaches to support people to improve or maintain their mental and physical wellbeing are needed.
Claire’s research experience is predominantly in health psychology, self-management strategies, social networks and social support in long-term conditions (Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s Disease) as well as web-based interventions, implementation and improvement science. Claire is currently finishing a PhD Fellowship in Improvement Science through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) in Wessex, which is funded through The Health Foundation. Claire’s PhD focused on the factors which enable someone with Type 1 diabetes to incorporate a new health technology such as an insulin pump into their everyday lives, and implementation of a web-based social support networking tool named GENIE (www.genie.soton.ac.uk).
Prior to research Claire worked as a Project Worker with people experiencing long-term and enduring mental health problems in the community and voluntary sector. This work included undertaking psychological therapies and interventions, person-centred-therapy support, and coordination and project management of mental health user-involvement.
Claire is currently working as a Senior Research Assistant on the REDUCE study in School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine and the OPTIM PARK study in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences.
Qualifications
- MSc, Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, 2013
- BA, Applied Psychology and Criminology, University of Brighton, 2007
Appointments held
- Senior Research Assistant at the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton (REDUCE study), Jul 19 – present
- Research Fellow at NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Southampton (OPTIM PARK project), Apr 19 – present
- Research Fellow, Barnard Health Research (BHR) Limited, May 17 – Apr 19
- Research Associate, NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Mar 14 – Dec 15
- Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC), University of Hertfordshire, Jan 13 – May 14
- Research & Development Facilitator, Herts Hospitals NHS Research & Development, Mar 13 – Mar 14