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Dr Neil Scott

Dr Neil Scott
Dr Neil Scott
Dr Neil Scott

MA, MSc, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
n.w.scott@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 437108
Office Address

Medical Statistics Team, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD, UK.

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Dr Neil Scott graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1995 with an MA in Mathematics and has an MSc in Applied Statistics from Napier University.  He obtained a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2007. 

From 1997 to 2001 he worked as a medical statistician in the Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, where he worked on clinical trials and systematic reviews, particularly in surgery.

Since joining the Medical Statistics Team (originally part of the Dept of Public Health) in 2001, he has collaborated on a large number of medical research projects in a wide variety of clinical areas.

He has an interest in the development and validation of quality-of-life instruments.  His PhD project involved using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses to detemine whether there were linguistic or cultural differences in responses to the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire.

He has a major interest in systematic reviews and meta-analysis and has co-authored many systematic reviews including several Cochrane reviews.  He is also interested in complex evidence synthesis methodologies, such as network meta-analysis, and is a member of the Aberdeen team critiquing technology assessments for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

He previously acted as a statistical consultant to NHS Grampian staff and is interested in statistical consultancy in general.

He contributes to a variety of teaching activities.  He is course co-ordinator for the PU5522 online Applied Statistics course and is a lecturer on the Systematic Reviewing (PU5526) and Evidence Based Health (PU5031) courses.

External Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

Research

Research Overview

Neil’s main research interests include:

  • Randomised controlled trials, including methods of randomisation
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, including individual patient data (IPD) reviews and network meta-analyses
  • Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
  • Differential item functioning (DIF) methods
  • Methods to assess translations of HRQoL questionnaires
  • Case-control studies
  • Statistical consultancy

 

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Applied Health Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Applied Health Sciences

Supervising
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Research Specialisms

  • Medical Statistics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Contribution to:

PU5522 Applied Statistics (online) (lecturer and course co-ordinator)

PU5017 Applied Statistics (lecturer and previous course co-ordinator)

PU5526 Systematic Reviewing (lecturer)

PU5031 Evidence-Based Health (online) (lecturer)

SPSS staff course (previous lecturer)

Intermediate Statistics staff course (previous lecturer)

PhD Statistics Course (previous tutor)

Statistical consultancies (NHS and University staff)

Student clinics

Publications

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  • The short and long-term effects on the visual system of children following exposure to maternal substance misuse in pregnancy

    Cornish, K. S., Hrabovsky, M., Scott, N. W., Myerscough, E., Reddy, A. R.
    American Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 156, no. 1, pp. 190-194
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling versus vitrectomy with no peeling for idiopathic full-thickness macular hole (FTMH)

    Spiteri Cornish, K., Lois, N., Scott, N., Burr, J., Cook, J., Boachie, C., Tadayoni, R., la Cour, M., Christensen, U., Kwok, A.
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 6, CD009306
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Adverse psychological effects and costs associated with waiting for radiofrequency ablation

    Barclay, J. L., Gibson, P. H., Lewis, A., Wilson, C., Affolter, J. T., Patel, J. C., Scott, N. W., Alexander, D. A., Choy, A. M., Broadhurst, P. A.
    PACE, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 719-726
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Uptake of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: A cohort study

    Ross, N., Scott, N. W., Duncan, J.
    European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 610-615
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age-, gender-, and socioeconomic status-specific incidence of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in North East Scotland: The PINE study

    Caslake, R., Taylor, K., Scott, N., Gordon, J., Harris, C., Wilde, K., Murray, A., Counsell, C.
    Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 515-521
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Is there an increase in the incidence of uterine carcinosarcoma in north-east Scotland?: A 19 years population-based cohort study

    Gurumurthy, M., Lahiri, R., Scott, N., Miller, I., Cruickshank, M., Parkin, D.
    Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 88-94
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Epidemiology Of Angioid Streaks-Associated Choroidal Neovascular Membranes In the United Kingdom

    Abdelkader, E. A., Scott, N. W., Lois, N.
    Cureus, vol. 5, no. 9, e138
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Retinal pigment epithelial atrophy in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration undergoing anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy

    Lois, N., Mcbain, V., Abdelkader, E., Scott, N. W., Kumari, R.
    Retina, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 13-22
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Comparing health status in Belarus between 2001 and 2010: a novel method using survey with different response categories

    Vasianovich, A., Scott, N. W., Cairns Smith, W., Wallace, C. D.
    European Journal of Public Health, vol. 23, no. 5
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Using databases in medical education research: AMEE Guide No. 77

    Cleland, J., Scott, N., Harrild, K., Moffat, M.
    Medical Teacher, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. e1103-e1122
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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