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Bonnie Millar is the Clinical Trial Manager in an early-phase clinical trial of a mood monitoring app (TrueBlue) for people in the perinatal period. The study has NHS ethics approval and represents a collaboration between the University of Nottingham, BlueSkeye AI, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS FT and Nottingham University Hospitals FT. Bonnie graduated from Trinity College Dublin where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature. She then studied at the University of Nottingham where she completed an M.A. in Medieval English and later gained her PhD in English Studies in 2000 by examining the fourteenth-century alliterative romance entitled the "Siege of Jerusalem" in its social, literary and historical contexts. In 2014 she received an additional M.A. in English Language and Literature from Trinity College Dublin. During and following the completion of her PhD, Bonnie held tutorships at the W.E.A., University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester, before becoming audit and compliance co-ordinator at Central College (formerly Castle College). She holds postgraduate qualifications in Management and Teaching. She joined the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit in 2014 to work on the QUIET-1 clinical trial, co-ordinating recruitment and trial activities. In 2016-7 Bonnie brought together her expertise in critical theory, research methodology, textual analysis and audit to facilitate the transfer of research data pertaining to studies conducted within the Tinnitus etiology and management research area into a single research data repository. In addition she has a proven record in scoping reviews, working as part of the Clinical Hearing Sciences team on literature reviews pertaining to Cisplatin and Carboplatin induced ototoxicity. Bonnie Millar was previously the Musculoskeletal Project Manager for the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre MSK Communications Lead and Recruitment Co-ordinator for the Pain Centre Versus Arthritis.
Expertise Summary
Bonnie has extensive knowledge of audit and compliance policies and procedures and ensures the correct guidelines are adhered to. She has delivered and supported a range of successful processes to improve quality assurance and to ensure data can be both reconciled and validated. She joined the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit in 2014 to work on the multi-centre clinical trial QUIET-1 co-ordinating recruitment and trial activities, whilst maintaining the investigator site file.
She has authored a critical study of the Siege of Jerusalem, and publishes on alliterative poetry, medieval romances, gender theory, medical humanities and sound studies. Recent publications include a paper entitled "Hero or Jester: Gawain in Middle English Romances and Ballads" in Le Personnage de Gauvain dans la literature européenne du Moyen Âge ed. Marie-Françoise Alamichel, a chapter on "Key Critics,Concepts & Topics" in the Continuum Handbook of Medieval British Literature, "A Measure of Courtliness: Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle" in Cultures Courtoises en Mouvement: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Congress of the International Society of Courtly Literature and contributions to the Facts on File Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry.
Bonnie brought together her expertise in critical theory, research methodology, textual analysis and audit to facilitate the transfer of research data pertaining to studies conducted within the Tinnitus etiology and management research area into a single research data repository. In addition she has a proven record in scoping reviews, working as part of the Clinical Hearing Sciences team on literature reviews pertaining to Cisplatin and Carboplatin induced ototoxicity.
Currently, she is mananaging an early-phase clinical trial of a mood monitoring app (TrueBlue) for people in the perinatal period. She over ten years experience in running clinical research studies and randomised controlled trials. In addition, she is an experienced project manager with a strong work ethic. She is an effective decision maker, demonstrated in project leadership during multi-site studies. Bonnie is actively involved in disability studies, medical humanities, story-telling for health and qualitative research.
Research Summary
In 2016-7 Bonnie brought together her expertise in critical theory, research methodology, textual analysis and audit to facilitate the transfer of research data pertaining to studies conducted within… read more
Recent Publications
TARA-MEI POVALL MACNAB, SHIMA ESPAHBODI, EEF HOGERVORST, AHMED THANOON, GWEN SASCHA FERNANDES, BONNIE MILLAR, ASHLEY DUNCAN, MARIA GOODWIN, MARK BATT, COLIN W. FULLER, GORDON FULLER, EAMONN FERGUSON, TOBIAS BAST and MICHAEL DOHERTY, 2023. Cognitive Impairment and Self-Reported Dementia in UK Retired Professional Soccer Players: A Cross Sectional Comparative Study Sports Medicine - Open. 9, 43 AKIN-AKINYOSOYE, K, JAMES, RJE, MCWILLIAMS, DF., MILLAR, B, DAS NAIR, R, FERGUSON E and WALSH, DA, 2021. The Central Aspects of Pain in the Knee (CAP-Knee) questionnaire; a mixed-methods study of a self-report instrument for assessing central mechanisms in people with knee pain. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage. 29, 802-814
Current Research
In 2016-7 Bonnie brought together her expertise in critical theory, research methodology, textual analysis and audit to facilitate the transfer of research data pertaining to studies conducted within the Tinnitus etiology and management research area into a single research data repository. In addition she has a proven record in scoping reviews, working as part of the Clinical Hearing Sciences team on literature reviews pertaining to Cisplatin and Carboplatin induced ototoxicity. Currently, she is managing an early-phase clinical trial of a mood monitoring app (TrueBlue) for people in the perinatal period. She over ten years experience in running clinical research studies and randomised controlled trials. In addition, she is an experienced project manager with a strong work ethic. She is an effective decision maker, demonstrated in project leadership during multi-site studies. Bonnie is actively involved in disability studies, medical humanities, story-telling for health and qualitative research. Further Details.
Past Research
She has authored a critical study of the Siege of Jerusalem, and publishes on alliterative poetry, medieval romances, gender theory, medical humanities and sound studies. Recent publications include a paper entitled "Hero or Jester: Gawain in Middle English Romances and Ballads" in Le Personnage de Gauvain dans la literature européenne du Moyen Âge ed. Marie-Françoise Alamichel, a chapter on "Key Critics,Concepts & Topics" in the Continuum Handbook of Medieval British Literature, "A Measure of Courtliness: Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle" in Cultures Courtoises en Mouvement: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Congress of the International Society of Courtly Literature and "Naming and Un-naming: Cynewulf's Runic Signatures" in La construcció d'identitats imaginades.
She is co-author of several reports including Cognitive Impairment and Self-Reported Dementia in UK Retired Professional Soccer Players and A Cross Sectional Comparative Study and Fidelity assessment of nurse-led non-pharmacological package of care for knee pain in the package development phase of a feasibility randomised controlled trial based in secondary care: a mixed methods study.
Future Research
Future research will focus on patient stories, the communication needs of those living with chronic illnesses recruitment into research studies and engaging the public with research.