Dr Claire Madigan

PHD, FHEA

  • Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Medicine
  • NIHR Advanced Research Fellow

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Claire Madigan

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Prior to her academic career, Claire worked in public health, commissioning weight management services and working on the childhood obesity strategy in Hampshire. She completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2014 and then went on to hold positions at the University of Sydney and the University of Oxford, before coming to º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ in 2020, when she joined the CLIMB team as a Senior Research Associate.

Claire took up the role of Lecturer in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences in March 2022 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2024. She started her NIHR advanced fellowship in September 2024.

Claire has expertise in behaviour change applied to weight management and prehabilitation. She has considerable methodological experience in clinical trial management with experience in behavioural and investigational medicinal trials.

Claire’s experience in public health has led her to conduct research about implementable public health interventions for weight management and maintenance of behaviours. Claire aims to help people improve their health and have a better quality of life. Her research focuses on behavioural weight management interventions in healthcare settings. More recently, she has been examining prehabilitation interventions before surgery to improve surgical outcomes and long-term behaviour change working with colleagues at the University of Newcastle and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Claire’s NIHR advanced fellowship explores whether weight loss before surgery is beneficial. She also holds an NIHR Policy research programme grant exploring how to support people that regain weight.  Please see the CLIMB website for more information about the projects.

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