Affiliation: North Bristol NHS Trust

Sam Harding is a Doctor of health psychology and holds Masters in both Psychological Research Methods and Medical Education.  She is a Senior Research Associate at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) where she leads teams on speech and language therapy research including developmental language disorder, language assessment during awake craniotomies, and neurogenic dysphagia.  Sam also works within the Research and Innovation department of NBT where she facilitates the development of early career researchers, grant writing, and journal article preparation. 

Sam leads a Master’s module at King’s College London, on the Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation Course.  Other teaching includes: ‘How to write a journal article’, ‘Understanding quantitative analyses’, ‘Undertaking qualitative analysis’ and ‘Carrying out systematic reviews’.

Over the last twenty years Sam has conducted and published research with, and on behalf of, NHS, charities, and commercial research organizations.  She calls upon a unique mix of psychology research methods and frameworks to answer diverse research questions.

Sam has used her expertise in primary and secondary health care settings and across diverse fields including hyperbaric medicine, chronic respiratory disease, maxillofacial cancer, stroke, and speech and language.  Her overall research interest is the impact of disease and treatment on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of people.