John Stephenson

I am a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Statistics, having joined the University of Huddersfield (School of Human and Health Sciences) in January 2010. I was a Visiting Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University (ACU), Melbourne, Australia, in March-April 2015, and held a 3-year Honorary Fellowship with ACU from 2015 to 2018. I was also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, in July 2017.

Before joining the University of Huddersfield, I was employed as an engineer for about 10 years in the nuclear industry; initially for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and subsequently for British Energy.

Academic qualifications: BSc(Hons) (Mathematics, University of Sheffield 1990); MSc(Eng), MPhil (Materials Science, University of Liverpool 1993, 1997); PhD (Biomedical Statistics, Cardiff University 2010).

Professional qualifications: Graduate Statistician Member of the Royal Statistical Society (FRSS GradStat) since 2006. Achieved Chartered Mathematician status with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (CMath MIMA) in 2007.

• Caries: development of novel modelling approaches for the assessment of restoration of symptomless primary teeth
• Tissue viability: healing times in pre-tibial lacerations; efficacy of negative pressure wound healing; pressure ulcers as a safeguarding issue
• Ophthalmology: methods of macular hole measurement; assessment of visual acuity and incidence of retinal breaks in eye surgery
• Pharmaceutical sciences: efficacy of asthma inhalation devices; skin permeability methods;
• Spinal surgery: risk factors for surgical site infection; survival of patients undergoing metastatic spinal tumours with infections; prediction of height gain following corrective surgery for scoliosis
• Podiatry and lower limb studies: compression treatments for ankle mobility; assessment of methods of corn and verruca treatments
• Neck of femur fractures: using albumin levels to predict mortality
• Facial skin cancer: psychological impact of surgical procedures
• Breast cancer: assessment of open access after care; factors influencing reconstruction decision-making in breast cancer survivors
• Mental health: assessment of methods to improve wellbeing in carers of depressive patients; assessment of methods of identification of depression in an elderly population
• Clinical nursing: assessment of aggression levels against nursing staff
• Clinical education: workshop evaluations; evaluation of wound care training; perceptions of academic learning.

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