Experience

Spotlight Consultations

• Chief Science Officer

  • Sep 2020 - Present



Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • Jan 2018 - Present



Bournemouth University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • 2014 - Present



BHR Limited

• United States

• Managing Director

  • 2011 - Present

  www.bhrltd.com 'Translating Clinical Research into Quality of Life'As Managing Director and Health Psychologist, Professor Barnard provides professional health psychology consultancy services to a wide range of clients in numerous areas of healthcare and technology assessment. Current projects include leading development of novel psychosocial measures in artificial pancreas research; acting as an Expert Advisor to global pharmaceutical companies, leading psychosocial components of multi-national, multi-centre randomised controlled trials; Expert Advisor to NICE; UK lead on the global diabetes survey of the diabetes attitudes, wishes and needs of people with diabetes, family members and healthcare professionals; Principal Investigator on KALMOD research programme (based on Kaleidoscope Model of Care developed by Prof Barnard); Provision of expert professional services in freelance systematic reviewing/evidence synthesis, including publication of a number of systematic reviews in peer-reviewed journals and co-authorship on HTA Technology Appraisal Reports; data analysis and publication via peer-reviewed journals, national and international conferences of research data on health technologies.



University of Southampton

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Health Psychologist

  • Aug 2007 - Sep 2020

  Prioritisation and commissioning of NHS funded research into public health and disease prevention areas. This included identification of appropriate research areas, refinement into specific researchable questions (population, intervention, comparator and outcome), rapid reviewing of evidence and preparation of briefing papers on health technologies relevant to Disease Prevention, identifying and critically appraising existing literature on effectiveness, costs and current diffusion; identifying scope, relevance and duration of ongoing research projects; identifying topics for consideration by the Disease Prevention and other HTA Panels. I participated in HTA panel decision making processes and prioritisation meetings alongside provision of justification of prioritised research in the context of NHS need and a balanced portfolio of research. Latterly, I was a member of the Operational Efficiency Project Board overseeing implementation of programme restructuring to increase the number of HTA funded projects, improve the speed of the application and decision making process and ensure quality assurance of outputs whilst maintaining continuity of optimal service delivery. Additional duties included participation in the research on research programme of the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Co-ordinating Centre, including management of own research programme and publications including a number of systematic literature reviews, evidence syntheses and primary research into optimisation of recruitment to clinical trials. Dissemination of knowledge tasks included contributing to department learning by running training at panel learning sessions and presenting research internally and externally at national and international conferences. I contribute expertise cross-governmentally on structured education in diabetes and healthcare delivery.

• Visiting Professor of Health Psychology

  • Mar 2014 - Dec 2014

  Development and delivery of MSc Diabetes Best Practice course (first entry: 2015-16 academic year)Leadership of research programme in psychosocial aspects of diabetes and other longterm conditionsProvision of health psychology evidence base, theory and research expertiseCurrent research includes REPOSE trial, STEPWISE trial, KALMOD: Behaviours for Health; Closed Loop (artificial pancreas) research; Web-based CBT tool for depression in people with diabetes.Supervision and mentoring of medical students

• Senior Research Fellow

  • 2012 - Feb 2014

  Provision of health psychology research expertise on a number of clinical trials and projects including:Principal Investigator - Alcohol Health Literacy project for young adults with type 1 diabetesCo-investigator on REPOSE trial - Relative Effectiveness of Pumps Over Structured Education - leading quantitative psychosocial investigation component of this longitudinal multi centre randomised controlled trialPsychological Lead - multi-centre RCTsSupervision and mentoring of medical students



BMC Research Notes

• Associate Editor

  • 2014 - 2015



University of Warwick Medical School

• Associate Lecturer

  • 2008 - Dec 2014

  Module lead for MSc Diabetes: Adolescent diabetesModule lead for MSc Diabetes: Psychosocial management of children and young people with diabetesExternal marker for MSc thesis and projects



University of Birmingham

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Lecturer

  • 2008 - Dec 2014



Health Professions Council

• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Registration Assessor

  • 2011 - 2014

  The Health Professions Council maintain and publish a Register of health professionals who meet their required standards to practice in the UK. Dr Brnard reviews applications for entry onto the Health Professions Register by Health Psychologists, making decisions about whether applicants meet the required standards and making recommendations on whether applicants should be registered.



The Open University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Lecturer

  • 2005 - 2008