Associate Professor Claire Wakefield

Associate Professor Claire Wakefield will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton from 2016 to 2019.

Visiting Fellow and Host

Fellow: Associate Professor Claire Wakefield, Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, The University of New South Wales

Hosts: Professor Claire Foster, Professor of Psychosocial Oncology / Director of Macmillan Survivorship Research Group & Dr Anne-Sophie Darlington, Associate Professor, Health Sciences.

Aims of the collaboration

To develop collaborative work focused on:

• interventions for families with a child or a parent with cancer
• understanding patterns of recovery and enhancing health and wellbeing of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer
• supporting treatment-related decision-making of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer

To provide mentorship for developing researchers in the field of paediatric psychology.

To foster collaboration in shared research interests across the disciplines of health sciences, medicine, psychology and computer science.