Clare Bradley

Biography

Dr. Bradley received her PhD. at the University of Nottingham for studies of the effects of stress on people with diabetes and those with ischaemic heart disease compared with healthy individuals. Dr. Bradley earned her BSc with Honours in Psychology at the University of London, Bedford College. She is a Practitioner Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. She received Good Clinical Practice training via Addenbrooks’ Hospital in 2011 and via Kings / SLaM in 2015. Dr. Bradley is the Head of the Health Psychology Research Unit and Professor of Health Psychology at the Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Bradley set up her company, Health Psychology Research Ltd. (HPR) in 2004, at Royal Holloway, to manage the linguistic validation and licensing of questionnaires and fund further development work. Dr. Bradley’s most long-standing research interest has been in diabetes and psychological aspects of diabetes management. She has specialized in the design and development of quality of life, treatment satisfaction, symptom and other patient-reported outcome measures which are used world wide in clinical trials and in clinical practice. Dr. Bradley developed the Well-being Questionnaire (W-BQ) and Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire in the early 1980s. The success of these instruments is reflected in funding to provide comparable measures for other conditions, endorsement and use of instruments by the World Health Organisation and International Diabetes Federation, and the linguistic validation of the measures into more than 100 languages worldwide. She is about to embark on the design of quality of life (QoL) and treatment satisfaction measures for people with dementia and those with Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Bradley has supervised to successful completion 15 doctoral students (including 12 PhDs, one MD and two clinical doctorates). Dr. Bradley is currently supervising a PhD student funded by the Macular Society. Dr. Bradley is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and one of their Chartered Psychologists. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dr. Bradley has approximately 300 publications including three edited books.

Research Interest

Psychology