Professor Tim Croudace, Distinguished Associate
Tim Croudace is Professor of Psychometric Epidemiology at the University of York and formerly Research Director of The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge. Tim trained as both an experimental and applied psychologist and in Health Services Research / Health Technology Assessment. Before moving to Cambridge in October 2000 he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham.
This breadth of interest is reflected in his principal research activities where he is involved in the design and analysis of epidemiological cohort studies, evaluations of mental health care - including trials of health care interventions - and psychometric analysis of measures used in psychiatric studies. Tim collaborates with international birth cohort studies, the MRC Biostatistics Unit and behavioural scientists in Cambridge, Bristol and Nottingham.
Tim characterises his work as the discipline of Psychometric Epidemiology. It involves use of latent variables and item response theory methods for measurement modelling, and structural regression modelling frameworks. He also works with multilevel and longitudinal data using random effects and latent class models. This experience is invaluable in directing the Centre's research agenda and cutting edge applied solutions.
Tim continues to work in the field of psychosis, with recent work on Early Diagnosis (Systematic Review), mapping incident cases in relation to measures of social deprivation, and predicting onset and outcome in prospective cohort studies. He will continue and extend this work, locally, in the near future to work on the psychometrics of psychosis outcome and an RCT of early psychosis education in clinical services and education institutions in the region. Tim's collaborative work is funded by the MRC, the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust. He also contributes to and provides training in psychometric methodology to local and national audiences.
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