Zoe Clothier

I work part time as a Research Assistant in the Cancer Cluster (School of Health Sciences). I am working with Dr Jenny Harris and Prof Jo Armes on a project that aims to use a co-design method to create an evidence-based care package, which includes a staff training toolkit, and a psychosocial care patient-report experience measure (PREM). I am also exploring the implementation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in head and neck cancer care, and another project investigating chemotherapy and quality of life in dogs.  

Alongside Prof Armes and Dr Harris, I am also collaborating with Prof Christian Heiss (School of Biosciences) to investigate peripheral artery disease (PAD). PAD is a long-term condition affecting the limbs, particularly the legs, and is associated with adverse physical and psychological outcomes. Its vague and often asymptomatic presentation compounds with poor understanding among the public, patients and health professionals means diagnoses are often prolonged or missed, so specifically our aim is to explore how the diagnostic pathway for people with this long-term condition and outcomes/wellbeing could be improved. We have set up a Public and Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) group to ensure our research aligns with the needs identified by those with lived experience of PAD. I also sit within the Long Term Conditions Cluster and Digital Health Cluster as part of this work. More broadly I am a member of the Workforce Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) Cluster.

I previously worked part time in the School of Psychology (University of Surrey) first as a Research Assistant and then as a Research Fellow. Here I was involved in two projects; the first explored burnout and wellbeing in healthcare professionals (January-September 2022); for this project I had a poster accepted at the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology conference (May 2023). My other project looked at work-related rumination/switching off from work and sleep quality in schoolteachers (September 2022-November 2023).