Claire Reidy

Dr Claire Reidy is a Chartered Psychologist, Implementation Scientist and Health Services Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Claire is currently working on evaluating the rollout of a number of digital health tools and programmes across England, including the NHS App, structured medication reviews and an app to monitor hypertension, using qualitative research methods.

Her research interests lie in digital health, digital innovations and especially digital inequity and digital inequality and underserved populations. Much of Claire's research is grounded in Implementation Science and health psychology, with a particular focus on self-management strategies and support and the part that social networks and social support play in managing long-term conditions (e.g. Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Hypertension and Parkinson's Disease).

Claire is an experienced mixed methods researcher in diverse healthcare settings, such as in primary care, care in the community, outpatient clinics and voluntary and community groups. 

Claire's research has predominately focused on the development, incorporation and use of new technologies in long-term conditions, and strategies to improve the self-management support provided to people living with a long-term condition or comorbidities. 

Claire’s PhD comprised of a mixed-method approach to determine the factors which enable someone with Type 1 diabetes to incorporate a new technology, such as an insulin pump, into their everyday lives and implementation of a social support networking tool named GENIE. This PhD was funded through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) in Wessex based at the University of Southampton, and by the Improvement Science Fellowship at The Health Foundation.

Prior to research, Claire worked as a Project Worker with people experiencing long-term and enduring mental health problems in the community and voluntary sector. This work included undertaking psychological therapies and interventions, person-centred therapy support, and coordination and project management of mental health user-involvement.