Dr Mike Horton PhD

Dr Horton is an academic Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and the Director of Leeds Psychometric Laboratory for Health Sciences. He has over fifteen years of applied health research experience, and his research interests focus around measurement science, psychometrics, and implementing Rasch Measurement Theory to create measures of latent constructs. He is an enthusiastic advocate of psychometric methodology, and is committed to developing the next generation of patient reported outcome measures.

Dr Horton is also the primary instructor on a range of world renowned Rasch analysis courses, and is part of a broad, international multidisciplinary collaborative network which looks to shape methodological advances in patient reported outcome measures.