Hannah Drysdale

Profile

I joined the Centre for Cancer Prevention, Screening and Early Diagnosis as an honorary research assistant in 2023, whilst working on my PhD at King’s College London. My PhD evaluated socioeconomic inequalities in cervical cancer screening and considered the impact of introducing HPV vaginal self-sampling into the NHS screening programme.

I am currently working on the DISTINCT project, in collaboration with the Institute of Cancer Research. This project explores public views on collecting data to monitor the inclusivity of clinical trials and a demographic question set is currently being piloted in non-commercial UK research.

I am a behavioural scientist by background and have experience of quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Research

Research Interests:

• Understanding inequalities in cervical screening participation and barriers to attendance.
• Understanding attitudes towards, and acceptability of, new screening tests. For example, HPV vaginal self-sampling for cervical screening. I am also interested in understanding what people think about being offered a choice of test (e.g. self-collection for cervical screening vs clinician sampling).
• Understanding and improving the inclusivity of cancer screening trials