Mrs Andrea Brodie

Andrea joined the Clinical Safety Research Unit (CSRU) in May 2005 as a Research Associate. Prior to this Andrea completed her BSc in Psychology and went on to complete her MSc in Health Psychology.

Since joining the CSRU, Andrea has worked on many projects, but is primarily involved in design for patient safety and works in collaboration with the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art. She has worked previously on the development of a new resuscitation trolley, which won two Medical Futures Innovation Awards and the trolley is currently being implemented into clinical trials, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Currently, Andrea is working on a project entitled ‘Designing out Medical Error’ (DOME) funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC). She is undertaking her PhD as part of the project, supervised by Professor Charles Vincent and Mr Rajesh Aggarwal.

Andrea is also currently pursuing her Chartership status in Health Psychology.