Prof. Gillian Lancaster

Gillian Lancaster is Professor of Medical Statistics at Keele University’s School of Medicine, Director of Keele Clinical Trials Unit and Head of the Biostatistics Group. The main focus of her research is on developing Patient/Caregiver Reported Outcome Measures and assessment tools primarily for use with children and young people in clinical trials or programmatic evaluations (eg. Alder Hey Triage Pain score, MDAT, ADNAT). She is part of a working group convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop Indicators for Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD), and Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for population monitoring. She is currently Editor in Chief of the BMC journal Pilot and Feasibility Studies and co-author of CONSORT extension guidelines for pilot and feasibility trials.

Dr Gareth McCray

Gareth McCray is a Research Associate in Statistics at Keele University. His research interests include Psychometric Measurement Construction, Item Response Theory and Rasch modelling, Diagnostic Testing, and Child Development Measurement and Global Health. He has been involved with a number of national and international studies related to psychometric measurement or diagnosis. His methodological work appears in journals such as BMJ Global Health, Frontiers in Psychology, BMC Medical Research Methods, Medical Education and Academic Medicine.