Profile

Biography

Cath works as Deputy Director of the York Trials Unit and also as a senior statistician on a variety of trials.

Qualifications

• BSC  Mathematics and Statistics
• MSC  Mathematics
• PhD  Health Sciences

Departmental roles

• Senior statistician
• Deputy Chair of Graduate School Board

Research

Projects

• SCIMITAR+
• RESPECT - Randomised Evaluation Sexual Health Promotion Evidence for Care and Treatment: A feasibility study of an intervention to promote sexual health for people with serious mental illness (SMI)
• CASPER PLUS - Collaborative care in screen positive elders with major depressive disorders 
• Connect project Co-Production of Policing Evidence, Research and Training: Focus Mental Health
• Teensleep - Independent Evaluation of Project Teensleep: A Factoral Cluster Randomised Contrlled Trial
• SCI-napse
• Independent Evaluation of using self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) and memorable experiences to improve writing quality (Calderdale 2)
• Maths Champions
• Independent Evaluation of the Third Space Learning's Online Maths Tuition Service - A cluster randomised controlled trial
• Project-Based Learning
• OTIS - Occupational Therapist Intervention Study
• HERO - Hydroxychloroquine Effectiveness in Reducing symptoms of hand Osteoarthritis
• ProFHER - Proximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation
• PROMOTE - Placebo-controlled trial of methotrecate to treat painful knee osteoarthritis
• REFORM - A randomised study in elders falling
• SCOOP - Screening for osteoporosis in older women for the prevention of fractures
• SWIFFT - Scaphoid Waist Internal Fixation for Fractures
• UK FROST: United Kingdom Frozen Shoulder Trial
• CPIT III - The Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy Incentives Trial (CPIT III): A Multi-centre phase III Randomised Controlled Trial
• PROFHER 2 - PROximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation Trial no. 2 (PROFHER-2 Trial)
• CHEMIST - Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST): A Feasibility and Pilot Study

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Supervision

Catherine supervises PhDs in the following areas: randomised controlled trials, statistics, systematic reviews, bias, diagnostic reviews, meta-analysis.

Current PhD Supervisees

• Jassas Alotaibi
• Abdulaziz Alrashid
• Samantha Gascoine
• Claire Gill
• Lazaro Mwandigha
• Simen Svenkerud
• Jennifer Sweetman

Publications

Full publications list

• Catherine Hewitt's publications

External activities

Memberships

Catherine is a member of the following panels and committees:

• Cross-Whitehall trials advice panel
• HTA comissioning board
• Speciality examiner for the Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology part 1 exam

Catherine is also part of the following Data monitoring and ethics committees (DMEC):

• NATTINA - The National Trial of Tonsillectomy in Adults, Newcastle
• MINIDEX, Oxford
• DAFNE plus - Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating, Sheffield
• BOOST - Better Outcomes for Older People with Spinal Trouble, OXFORD
• FISCU - , Sheffield

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Module leader for Introduction to Health Statistics
• Understanding Clinical Statistics
• Measurement in Health and Disease