Professor Katie Gillies

Katie Gillies is an MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellow and Professor working in Methodological Research related to participant centred trials. She is also the  Director of the Unit’s Health Care Assessment Programme.

Katie’s research interests focus on the design and delivery of participant centred trials: from point of initial contact through to feeding back results to individuals.  Katie leads research in the application of behavioural science to trials methodology. For example, framing problems of recruitment and retention as behaviours and exploring the opportunities to improve these aspects through the design of participant centred, theoretically informed, interventions. This work is multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder and involves using mixed methods approaches to develop, evaluate and implement interventions to support decision making in this context.