Professor of Medical Statistics at The University of Sheffield. Statistician, walker and Garibaldi Red. The opinions are personal

Sheffield
Joined October 2019
In clinical trials it is not only potential benefits that should be measured - it is crucially important that any potential #harms are also investigated 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #118
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New Publication 🔊: Trials special series - the collection, analysis and reporting of adverse events in randomised controlled trials by @RachPips & @VR_Cornelius trialsjournal.biomedcentral.…
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We still routinely see age-old errors crop up in trial reports. Despite many people highlighting these problems time and again, they still keep coming 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #104
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A favourite: #OTD 1977 Martin Bland & Doug Altman publish together for the first time: a comment in Lancet criticizing an article that confused association with causation. They went on to publish more than 100 papers together, many of which are citation classics
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£770m. That’s the economic benefit international students contributed to the city of Sheffield in the 2021-2 academic year. We’re calling on the government to recognise the economic, social and cultural value of international students and remove them from net migration figures.

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Congratulations to Jeremy Dawson (@jfdawson76) who is one of 30 new Fellows elected to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the only one from the UK this year.
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Presented my supervisors with a scarf from my hometown Najran, inspired by the historic Hima wells! Thank you for the last four years! @StevenJulious @RMSimpson29 #Najran #HimaWells #SaudiArabia #phd #phdlife #PhDone
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Had incredibly insightful discussions at @UKPHSci UK Public Health Science Conference! Honoured to present our TRAINS study about letter-based intervention to GPs to improve asthma prescription in children. Discover our approach and findings here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i8W5… #PHSci – at London, England
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Today I passed my PhD viva from @sheffielduni . Big thanks to my supervisors @StevenJulious, @RMSimpson29 and Philip Oliver, as well as my incredible friends and family for standing by me. 🙏
بفضل من الله وتوفيقه اجتزت مناقشة الدكتوراه من جامعة شيفلد شكرًا لله أولاً ثم شكراً لوطني الغالي ولوالدي وعائلتي وكل الأحباب والأصدقاء الذين ساندوني في هذه الرحلة ولا أنسى في هذه اللحظة أن أدعو الله أن يتغمد عمي سعيد بواسع رحمته ويسكنه فسيح جناته الذي كان داعم لي حتى آخر لحظة
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I passed my PhD viva with no corrections today! The project was supervised by Prof. @walters_sj Dr. @Rich_Jay and Dr. @Flight_LG. It was great to have Prof. Catherine Hewitt and Dr. @ines_rombach as my examiners, and Prof. @StevenJulious as the viva coordinator!
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@RamiAlyamii @StevenJulious presented the TRAINS RCT of an educational intervention to improve primary care asthma prescription uptake
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"Excited to announce I'll be attending the Annual International Congress 2023 of the European Respiratory Society in Milan! 🌍 I'll be presenting the TRAINS study, the largest RCT in the UK. Catch me on Tuesday from 12:30 to 14:00 in PS-2. Looking forward to connecting! #ERS2023"
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There was a really helpful report produced recently by @CTRU_Sheffield providing useful guidance on the design & analysis of n-of-1 trials through their #DIAMOND project - with a full summary chapter on points to consider. See here for their report 5/8 figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles…
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We really enjoyed presenting our work around setting the non-inferiority margin at #NIHRStats2023. Thanks to everyone that came and engaged in great discussions! We are always interested in hearing from anyone working in this area so please get in touch 😀
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NEW: The UK’s largest private-sector DB pension scheme, #USS, “encourages” Govt to explore making DB #pension promise conditional, and not fixed. #USS made the call in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into DB pensions. committees.parliament.uk/wri…
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A fascinating read for the weekend that explores the incredible story of Florence Nightingale, by our own @StevenJulious in the @sheffieldtrib On the battlefields of the Crimean War and in the hills of Sheffield, Florence Nightingale's legacy lives on. sheffieldtribune.co.uk/p/on-…
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#SCT2023 - @mdimairo describing the excellent #PANDA online #AdaptiveTrials toolkit - resources covering planning & design, conduct, analysis & reporting. Great explainers, links to literature, statistical code, case studies & more. Check it out! panda.shef.ac.uk/
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NEW: The giant #USS pension plan has surged further into the black, reporting a £7.6bn surplus at the end of March. In 2020, the scheme reported a £14bn deficit.
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We are pleased to announce Professor Jane Hutton as the winner of the 2023 Mardia Prize. The prize was created to fund cutting-edge interdisciplinary workshops. Professor Hutton plans to hold a series of workshops on statistics and the law. rss.org.uk/news-publication/…
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