The SPARCLAR Team
Chief Investigators
Co-Investigators
Project Managers
Researchers
Professor Helen Minnis
Joint Chief Investigator
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry My job on the SPARCLAR Trial is to ensure that the goals of the project are achieved and to liaise with everyone involved in order to support this.
Dr Lucy Thompson
Joint Chief Investigator
International Research Coordinator and Research Fellow. My job is to ensure that the goals of the project are achieved and to liaise with everyone involved in order to support this.
Professor Emma McIntosh
Co-Investigator
Professor of Health Economics.Deputy Director of the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment team, University of Glasgow, and lead the programme on the Economics of Population Health. My role in the team is to oversee the economic analysis of the project.
Dr Rachael Wood
Co-Investigator
I am a public health doctor. I work in the NHS Information Services Division where I looked after our national information on children’s health. My role in the trial involves assessing families’ outcomes using information that is routinely collected within health and other services.Co
Professor Christopher Gillberg
Co-Investigater
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow and Gothenburg / Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre
Professor Nicholas Watson
Co-Investigator
Professor of Disability Studies. Chair of Disability Studies and Director of the Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow. I am also Director of What Works Scotland, and ESRC and Scottish Government funded initiative exploring what works in public service reform. I bring expertise in qualitative research to the SPARCLAR team.
Martina Messow
Co-Investigator
Biostatistician. For over 10 years I have been working at the Robertson Centre for Biostatistic, which is part of the Glasgow Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Glasgow. I have worked with clinicians and fellow academic researchers on many randomised clinical trials, interventional, epidemiological and observational studies and meta-analyses in a wide range of clinical contexts.
Gordon Brown
Co-Investigator
I am a Consultant Nurse, CEO of ADHD Direct and co-developer of Parents InC. My role is to liaise and offer guidance to the University of Glasgow Team.
Dr Hilary Maddox
Co-Investigator
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Child & Family Psychology NHS Fife and Co-developer of Parents InC. My role is to facilitate the Parents InC intervention and liaise with the University of Glasgow team.
Dr Fiona Sim
Trial Manager
My job is to coordinate the management and governance of this trial. I also initiate contact with parents who have agreed to participate in the trial and have been randomised.
Lindsay Dalgarno
Researcher
My role is to support the management and daily running of the trial.
I am a Qualitative Researcher and I conduct interviews with parents who are taking part in the SPARCLAR trial.
Caroline Hollinsworth
Assistant Psychologist /Research Assistant - NHS Fife
My role is to facilitate the Parents InC intervention and liase with participants and the University of Glasgow team.