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Dr Saskia Eddy

Dr Saskia Eddy (BSc MSc FHEA PhD)

Lecturer in Medical Statistics
E: s.eddy@bsms.ac.uk
Location: Watson Building, University of Brighton, Falmer, BN1 9PH

Areas of expertise: Medical statistics, clinical trials, pilot and feasibility studies, including external randomised pilot trials, and Delphi studies.

Research areas: Clinical trial methodology, pilot and feasibility studies, effective communication of statistics, cerebral palsy, oncology.

Preferred gender pronouns: She/her

Biography

Saskia is a Lecturer in Medical Statistics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Saskia completed a BSc in Mathematics at University of Reading followed by an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She joined King's College London in 2017 as a Trial Statistician and worked in collaboration with NICE and NHS England to successfully commission two interventions for cancer and cerebral palsy. Saskia was awarded Barts charity funding to conduct her PhD at Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Evaluation and Methods. Saskia’s PhD investigated the sample size of pilot and feasibility trials.

Saskia is a member of the international pilot and feasibility studies (PAFS) collaboration, a co-creator of the PAFS webinars and associate editor of the journal, Pilot and Feasibility Studies. Saskia is also a member of the NIHR Improving Statistical Literacy research group.

Research

Saskia is interested in clinical trial methodology, particularly the design, sample size, and conduct of pilot and feasibility trials. Saskia is currently working on pilot and definitive trials in the areas of sexual health, vulnerable populations and cerebral palsy. Saskia is interested in the creation of research methodology guidance such as reporting guidelines, the design and conduct of Delphi studies and the communication of statistics in research.

BACKGROUND IMAGE FOR PANEL

Teaching

As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Saskia has experience teaching medical (MBBS) and Public Health (MPH) students, as well as NHS professionals about medical statistics and experimental design. She has also supervised MPH students and is an active member of the NIHR Improving Statistical Literacy research group.

Selected publications

Bond, C., Lancaster, G.A., Campbell, M., Chan, C., Eddy, S., et al. Pilot and feasibility studies: extending the conceptual framework. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2023;9(1):24

Parker, K., Eddy, S., et al. Systematic review of the characteristics of school-based feasibility cluster randomised trials of interventions for improving the health of pupils in the UK. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2022;8(1):132.

Lawson, D. O., Mellor, K., Eddy, S., et al. Pilot and Feasibility Studies in Rehabilitation Research: A Review and Educational Primer for the Physiatrist Researcher. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 101(4):p 372-383, 2022.

Mellor, K., Eddy, S., et al. Progression from external pilot to definitive randomised controlled trial: a methodological review of progression criteria reporting. BMJ Open. 2021 Jun 28;11(6):e048178.

Chalkidou, A., Macmillan, T., Grzeda, M.T., Peacock, J., Summers, J., Eddy, S., et al. Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy in patients with oligometastatic cancers: a prospective, registry-based, single-arm, observational, evaluation study. Lancet Oncology. 2021;22(1):98-106.

Summers, J., Coker, B., Eddy, S., et al. Selective dorsal rhizotomy in ambulant children with cerebral palsy: an observational cohort study. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 2019;3(7):455-62