Dr Susan Kerrison

Assistant Director Research and Development

Susan Kerrison has worked for UCL and UCLH since 1999.  She studied for a doctorate at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics.  She obtained her doctorate in Sociolegal aspects of Regulation in 2007 with a thesis entitled "Images of the protected in nursing home regulation".  She has an M.Sc. in Sociology of Health and Illness. She has special interest in the regulation of medical research and has had a career which spans both the NHS and Universities.

Publications include:

Kerrison SH, Laws S,  Cane M,  Thomson A (2008)  The patients experience of being a research subject  J R Soc Med 101; 416-422

Kerrison SH, Pollock AM (2005) The reform of UK research ethics committees: throwing the baby out with the bath water Journal of Medical Ethics 31:

Kerrison SH (2004) Creating a level playing field: the influence of user and provider grievances in shaping health care policy in Tingle, Foster and Wheat(eds) Regulating Health care quality: legal and professional perspectives Elsevier Science

McNally N, Kerrison SH, Pollock AM (2003) Reforming clinical research and development in England BMJ ; 327:550-3

Kerrison SH, McNally N and Pollock AM (2003) United Kingdom Research Governance Strategy BMJ;327:553-6

Kerrison SH, Pollock AM. Complaints as accountability: the case of health care in the UK. Public Law Spring 2001;115-33.

Kerrison SH, MacFarlane A, editors. Official health statistics: an unofficial guide. London: Arnold; 2001.