Applied Skills Science Team Support, The Alan Turing Institute
Lara is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh working on an interdisciplinary project in applied data science and geriatric medicine. She is using statistical and machine learning methods on patient health records and survey data to study people’s risk of adverse health outcomes in later life. She is also interested in the usability and ethics of big data in health for researchers, data visualisation and communicating about research to lay members of the public.
Before starting her PhD she worked as a Senior Data Analyst for Public Health Scotland, where she produced and automated statistical reports and dashboards on prescribing data and evaluated quality improvement projects. Lara also worked as a Senior Manager in consulting, where she had project director responsibility for multi-country mixed methods research projects.
Lara has an Msc in Psychology of Individual Differences from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Classics and English from the University of Oxford.
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