Professor Jane Hutton (PhD Admissions)

Professor Jane Hutton works in medical statistics, with special interests in survival analysis, meta-analysis and non-random data. Accelerated failure time models are a particular focus in her research in survival analysis.

She has major collaborations in cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Her work with Professor Peter Pharoah and Dr Allan Colver, on life expectancy in cerebral palsy, has had a substantial effect on the size of awards in medico-legal cases. This work is widely cited nationally and internationally. In epilepsy, she has contributed to many Cochrane reviews of anti-epileptic drugs. She is currently working on a research project with Dr Tony Marson, of Liverpool University Neurosciences Department.

She has written extensively on ethics and philosophy of statistics. She has contributed to Research Council ethics guidelines.

External Roles

She is a member of the Core Methodology Panel, National Insitute for Health Research (NIHR), 2011-2015; the

NIHR TCC Fellowship Panel, 2011-2014; and the selection committee for the Health Research Board in Ireland, 2012.


Zeeman Building
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL

Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 8357
Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4532
Email J.L.Hutton 'at ' warwick.ac.uk

Office hours, weeks 2-9, Term 3

Normal office hours: Mondays, 11.30-12.30 pm, and Fridays, 9.30-10.30 am.

For week 1, please sign up on the noticeboard outside my office.

Current Research Grants

Defining priorities and communicating evidence about interventions for epilepsy. NIHR, with Professor AG Marson (PI) and others.

Publications and Preprints

A list of publications is here. Frequently requested papers can be found below.

Are distinctive ethical principles required for cluster randomized controlled trials? JL Hutton, Statist. Med. 2001;20:475-488

Ethics of medical research in developing countries: the role of international codes of conduct. JL Hutton, Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 2000;9:185-206

Effects of cognitive, motor, and sensory disabilities on survival in cerebral palsy. JL Hutton and POD Pharoah, Arch. Dis. Child. 2002;86:84-89

Regional variation in survival of people with cerebral palsy in the United Kingdom. K. Hemming, JL Hutton, A Colver and MJ Platt, Pediatrics. 116:2005:1383-1390. http://10.1542/peds.2005-0259

Life expectancy in severe cerebral palsy. POD Pharoah and JL Hutton, Arch. Dis. Child. 2006;91:254-258. http://10.1136/adc.2005.075002

Long term survival for a cohort of adults with cerebral palsy. K Hemming, JL Hutton and POD Pharoah, Dev. Med. Child. Neuro 2006;48:90-95