Cicely Kerr, MSc. PhD – Outcomes Researcher, Patient Reported
Outcomes
Cicely joined the Oxford Outcomes in 2009 from the
department of Primary Care and Population Health at
University College London (UCL) after working in
psychology and primary care departments of various UK
Universities, conducting various community-based
health research projects over the preceding 12 years,
including local coordination of a randomised clinical trial
(RCT) for alcohol therapies and investigation of
informed consent issues in RCTs.
Cicely has an MSc in Health Psychology from
Staffordshire University (2003) and a PhD in Primary
Care (eHealth) from UCL (2010). Her experience
includes designing and project managing qualitative,
quantitative and mixed methods research projects,
including concept elicitation, cognitive debriefing, health
utility, ePRO evaluation.
Cicely has extensive experience of qualitative research
methods from work both within and outside the PRO
field and along with Annabel Nixon has recently been
involved in several projects involving psychometric
review and validation of patient-reported, clinicallyreported and observer-reported outcomes.