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Professor Judy Bradley

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Prof Judy Bradley

Professor Judy Bradley

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Professor Bradley’s research programme is focused on respiratory health. She is involved in several programmes exploring the effectiveness of therapies linked to optimising airway clearance via pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches as well as rehabilitation and adherence interventions.  These programmes are funded for example by MRC, NIHR and are multi-centre and employ a wide range of trial designs (RCT, observational) and methodologies (both quantitative and qualitative methods).

Contact info

  • Judy.Bradley@qub.ac.uk
  • 02895040342

Research Interests

Professor Bradley is open to wide-ranging PhD candidates from a clinical or allied health professional or other therapy background.

Her fields of interest include:

  • Bronchiectasis
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Airway Clearance
  • Exercise and rehabilitation
  • Methods of optimizing clinical trials.
  • Outcome assessment

Previous research experience is desirable although not essential.

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Remote assessment for clinical trials and healthcare: Exploring the usefulness of remote spirometry  
  • Remote assessment for clinical trials and healthcare: Exploring the usefulness of remote spirometry  

Public outreach & key achievements

Professor Bradley is currently lead applicant on a NIHR grant, in excess of £1million, evaluating the efficacy of mucolytic therapies in bronchiectasis and leads this trial within up to twenty sites across the UK.

Professor Bradley is also a co-applicant on a NIHR-funded, randomised controlled trial to determine if a health hub intervention can build better treatment habits in Cystic Fibrosis. Within this trial, she co-leads on a Fidelity work-stream focused on both measuring the quality of the adherence intervention delivered across the sites and on implementing quality improvement initiatives to optimise the adherence intervention.


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