Fenella Starkey

Fenella joined the Nuffield Department of Population Health in 2020 as Senior Research Facilitator in Epidemiology for the UK Biobank (UKB) cohort. Her current role involves day-to-day management of: the development of an ongoing series of web-based questionnaires to all UKB participants, for example on mental health, neurodevelopmental conditions, and sleep; other UKB enhancement projects, including pilot projects to assess the feasibility and acceptability of new data collection methods; and UKB re-contact projects, such as the deep and frequent phenotyping project. 

Fenella has previously worked in the University of Bristol’s Department of Social Medicine as Trial Co-ordinator for ASSIST, a school-based cluster RCT, and as a Research Fellow in UWE Bristol’s Faculty of Health and Social Care on a range of applied research and evaluation projects in the fields of public health and primary care. Her research interests have focused on: public health interventions relating to young people’s health behaviours, particularly smoking and drug use; service user involvement in service development and research; and the experiences of mental health service users. She holds a BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in mental health undertaken at the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies.