Melanie Simmonds-Buckley

Dr Melanie Simmonds-Buckley is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield's School of Psychology. She works in a split role, dedicating Monday-Wednesday to the university's Clinical and Applied Psychology Unit (CAPU) and Thursday-Friday to researcher duties at RDASH NHS Trust's Psychological Health Observatory within the Grounded Research team. She is also affiliated with the Psychotherapy Evaluation and Research Lab at Sheffield (PEARLS).

Qualifications:

• PhD in Clinical Psychology (University of Sheffield, 2019)
• BSc in Psychology (University of York, 2010)

Her research explores personalized precision medicine approaches to mental health, focusing on outcome prediction for psychological therapies using large datasets and technology development like psychotherapy progress feedback systems. She specializes in quantitative methods including meta-analysis, single case experimental design, network analysis, and machine learning for treatment modeling.

Recent publications examine CBT vs CAT for anxiety, depression treatment optimization, and data-driven restraint prediction in psychiatric wards. She supervises DClinPsy trainees and contributes to program selection but is not accepting PhD applicants.