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Carol Desousa

CEDAR Statistician

Email: carol.desousa ‘at’ mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk / cd455 ‘at’ medschl.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: 01223 330385

Address:
MRC Biostatistics Unit,
Institute of Public Health,
University Forvie Site,
Robinson Way,
Cambridge.
CB2 0SR
United Kingdom

Qualifications

  • MSc Applied Statistics and Operational Research.
  • BSc Statistics and Management.

Background and experience
Prior to joining CEDAR in 2010, Carol undertook an ESRC-funded PhD in Applied Social and Economic Research at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex (2007/8 to 2009/10). Her PhD focuses on the effects of structural interventions (such as national health initiatives, legislation and socio-economic class) on health behaviours and outcomes using the British Household Panel Survey data. During her PhD she also contributed to analyses of health data collected at wave 1 of the Innovation Panel of the Understanding Society study. Previously she worked as a statistician on various projects for the Cardiff Institute of Society and Health (CISHE) and the Health Promotion Division in the Welsh Assembly Government. She has also worked on the National Evaluation of Sure Start study at Birkbeck College and on various projects at the National Nursing Research Unit at Kings College London.

Current work and interests
Carol is a statistician providing statistical support to CEDAR researchers. She is currently working on the Commuting and health in Cambridge study, (lead by David Ogilvie) which looks at the health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway and the SPEEDY project (Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: Environmental Determinants in Young people) (lead by Ester Van Sluijs). She is particularly interested in studying the impact of structural interventions on individual health behaviours, natural experiments and the analysis of longitudinal data.

Professional memberships and roles

Publications

  1. Desousa, C; Murphy, S; Roberts, C; Anderson, L (2008) School policies and binge drinking behaviours of school-aged children in Wales – a multilevel analysis Health Education Research 23 (2) 259-271.
  2. Moore, L; Moore, GF; Tapper, K; Lynch, R; Desousa, C; Hale, J; Roberts, C; Murphy, S (2007) Free breakfasts in schools: design and conduct of a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative in Wales. BMC Public Health 7:258doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-258.
  3. Davey, B; Desousa, C; Robinson, S; Murrell, T (2006) The policy-practice divide. Who has clinical supervision in nursing? Journal of research in nursing. 11(3) 237-248.
  4. Barnes, J; Desousa, C; Martin, F; Donna, L; Gillian, H (2005) National evaluation report: changes in the characteristics of Sure Start local programme areas in rounds 1 to 4 between 2000/01 and 2002/03, Sure Start programme, July 2005, Nottingham, DfES.
  5. Desousa, C and Murrell, T (2005) The Use of SPlus Software to Analyse Event History Data: An Application to the Early Career Promotion of Nurses in UK Quality and Quantity 39 (4), 453-465.

Organisational affiliation
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge – www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

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