Rate My Professor Brigid Clancy

Dr Brigid Clancy serves as the HDR Skills and Academic Development Coordinator in the Graduate Research team within the Research and Innovation Division at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Health from the University of Newcastle, where her PhD focused on identifying gaps and opportunities in support for people after stroke, especially health risk factors. Currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Kylie Shaw, she researches the doctoral student experience, with an emphasis on generative artificial intelligence use by higher degree research students. She supports the Graduate Research Student Experience and Development team in enhancing doctoral learning, development programs, and supervision quality.

With six years in health research and consulting, including quantitative and qualitative research, literature reviews, health service and policy evaluations, educational materials, and policy submissions, Clancy has held positions as Project Officer in Graduate Research (2023-2024), Research Consultant at 360Edge (2019-2022), and Research Assistant in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing (2018-2020). Her efforts target improved quality of life for disadvantaged groups, particularly in stroke research. Passionate about science communication, she has published four articles in The Conversation, totaling over 420,000 views. Notable publications include "Healthcare provider perceptions of support provision for people with stroke: a qualitative study" (Disability and Rehabilitation, 2025), "The Online Health Information–Seeking Behaviors of People Who Have Experienced Stroke: Qualitative Interview Study" (JMIR Formative Research, 2024), "Health risk factors in Australian Stroke Survivors: A latent class analysis" (Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2024), "Evaluation of an online intervention for improving stroke survivors' health-related quality of life: A randomised controlled trial" (PLOS Medicine, 2022), and "Access to and Use of Internet and Social Media by Low-Morbidity Stroke Survivors Participating in a National Web-Based Secondary Stroke Prevention Trial: Cross-sectional Survey" (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022).