Dr Beth Stuart is an Associate Professor within Medicine at the University of Southampton. Dr Beth Stuart is a medical statistician and quantitative methodologist. Beth’s work involves helping researchers to develop research questions, design studies and plan analyses and interpret results. She has experience of working with a wide variety of study designs including randomised controlled trials, observational cohorts and feasibility studies. Beth’s research involves evidence synthesis and explores innovative statistical approaches to secondary data analysis including latent class analysis and propensity scoring methods. She is interested in how we might make the most of the data we collect as part of primary research including cross-design synthesis – combining observational and trial data.