Dr. Stephen Quinn

Queen's University Belfast

Research interests: Federated Data Sharing, Digital Health, Health Data Research, Cancer Epidemiology, Haematology

Stephen Quinn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen's University Belfast. He specialises in population‑level cancer data, with expertise in epidemiological analysis, data linkage, and using existing datasets in large‑scale research.

Stephen holds a BSc (Hons) in Health Physiology from Ulster University and a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology from Queen's University Belfast, where he focused on haematological cancers and malignant transformation in myeloma precursor conditions. His most recent prior post as an Audit and Research Analyst at the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry strengthened his experience in cancer data analysis across disease sites and registry‑based research. Stephen's recent work focuses on assessing data governance and assessing data readiness for standardisation, aiming to enable further data linkage in research.