Grace Collum
Research Associate
Profile
Biography
Grace is a Research Associate based within the Epidemiology and Cancer Statistics Group (ECSG). In this role she uses data from the Haematological Malignancy Research Network (HMRN) along with routine datasets, such as Hospital Episode Statistics, and national administrative data sets, such as the Census and the Index of Multiple Deprivation, to infer patients routes to diagnosis, produce descriptive statistics as well as more complex techniques such as regression modelling and time-to-event analysis. Grace joined ECSG in 2021 when she started her PhD which investigated the impact of sociodemographic and geographical factors on routes to diagnosis, treatment and survival of patients with aggressive lymphoma using HMRN data. She has a background in Biomedical Sciences, with a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of York.
Qualifications
- BSc Biomedical Sciences - University of York, 2019
- PhD Cancer Epidemiology - University of York, 2026
Research interests
- health inequalities
- health outcomes
- socio-economic status
Supervisors
Dr Maxine Lamb
Funding
Cancer Research UK Studentship
Departmental roles
Grace is a coordinator of the Quantitative Research Network (QuantRN) in the Department of Health Sciences.
Research
Overview
Collum, G., Lamb, M., Kelly, C., Howell, D., Roman, E. & Smith, A., 2024.
Poster presented at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health, Glasgow, Scotland.
External activities
Overview
Invited talks and conferences
68th Annual Scientific Meeting - Society for Social Medicine & Population Health
Participant and poster session - 4-6th September 2024
Data-driven cancer research conference 2024 - Cancer Research UK
Participant - 27-28th February 2024
67th Annual Scientific Meeting - Society for Social Medicine & Population Health
Participant - 6-8th September 2023
