Vicki Barber
BSc (Hons) ; FIoB; PhD
OCTRU Operations Director
As a scientist by training I have had an interest in healthcare research since 1998 and trials since 2001. I undertook an undergraduate BSc Hons degree in Applied and Human Biology, and then a PhD in Pharmacology. I was then selected to be part of the first cohort of fellows in the Midlands MEDICI programme that taught entrepreneurship, commercialisation and business administration. I then combined all of these experiences to manage the first clinical trial of a one of the University of Oxford Spin Out Companies. This then led onto me being part of many trial teams, grant applications and feasibility studies.
To date, I have trial managed CTIMP (drug) trials and complex intervention trials in general medicine, intensive care, paediatrics and most recently in obstetrics. I directed the INFANT study, a multi-centre randomised controlled trial which recruited over 46,000 pregnant women in the second most expensive study (at the time) ever funded by the NIHR HTA programme.
I have been active in trial management for over a decade and have in the past contributed to the UK Trial Managers Network Trial Management Guide.
As the Operations Director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU) I oversee all collaborations and take an active role in senior project management of many of our trials.
Recent publications
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Protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial examining the effects of temporarily pausing Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy to coincide with SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and its impact on immune responses in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
Journal article
Barber VS. et al, (2023), Bmj open, 13
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Protocol for the TRANSLATE prospective, multicentre, randomised clinical trial of prostate biopsy technique.
Journal article
Bryant RJ. et al, (2023), Bju int, 131, 694 - 704
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HOW SHOULD WE BEST MEASURE PARTICIPANT-REPORTED `AVERAGE HAND PAIN': COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS FROM A RANDOMIZED PLACEBO-CONTROLLED FEASIBILITY STUDY OF POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Conference paper
Williams JA. et al, (2023), Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 31, S187 - S188
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What Happens When you Ask for Feedback? Anticipating and Addressing Challenges Can Be Effective for Eliciting Parents’ Views About Their Critically Ill Child's Retrieval to Paediatric Intensive Care
Journal article
Barber V. et al, (2023), Journal of patient experience, 10
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Progressive exercise versus best practice advice for adults aged 50 years or over after ankle fracture: the AFTER pilot randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Keene DJ. et al, (2022), Bmj open, 12