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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Journal article
Barber VS. et al, (2023), Bmj open, 13
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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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Journal article
Barber V. et al, (2023), Journal of patient experience, 10
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Journal article
Keene DJ. et al, (2022), Bmj open, 12