Ben Carter is Professor of Medical Statistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Previously, Ben was based in Cardiff University where he led the Masters in Public Health programme and contributed to research for the Centre for Trials research. Prior to this role, Ben was a research fellow at the Cancer Research Clinical Trials Unit in Birmingham University.

Ben holds a BSc in Statistics from Reading University, MSc in Medical Statistics from Southampton University (2001) and PhD from Reading University (2005). Throughout the early part of his career, he worked in the pharmaceutical Industry with GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Quintiles.

Currently, Ben the affiliated lead for the King's Clinical Trials Unit’s Mental Health Statistics Group at King's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. He is also the methodological lead and Senior Statistician to 12 studies with collaborators based at King's College London, King’s College Hospital, Cardiff University, and Glasgow University.  

Research interests

• The impact of technology and devices in children
• Methodology that underpin cluster randomised controlled trials
• Methods that underpin synthesis for systematic reviews of non-randomised controlled studies

Teaching

Ben lead the “Statistics, Epidemiology and research methods” module, which is worth 30 credit for the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience. He also supervises MSc and undergraduate projects.

Expertise and public engagement

• Regular contributor to expert opinion articles in various national and international newspapers
• Public speaker on the impact of technology on the mental and physical health of children and young adults
• Cochrane Dermatology Group Statistics Editor