Current doctoral projects

Health & Social Care

“An exploration into the lived experiences of older people living with long-term pain: phenomenology of chronic pain”

“Design, Application, and Evaluation of a Chemistry Wiki Tool used on Chemistry-Anxious First-Year Undergraduates at a UK University”

“An exploration of the deeper aspects of Healing Conversation, could there be an Optimal Resonance? The Counsellor's Story.”

“Transpersonal Psychotherapy.Components at the heart of good practice. Psychotherapy, Spiritual Practice and Non Duality”

“Supporting self care after stroke”

“Solace: Relationships in Care”

“The Impact of Social Work Education on a Person's Wholeness”

“Knowledge and knowing for professional education: Investigating the nature of personal epistemology for post qualifying social work students”

“Are Physiotherapists meeting National Palliative Care Standards? A case study approach”

“An exploration of the effects of aqua-natal exercise on pregnancy and birth outcomes and the well-being of women during childbearing.”

“The learning approaches to student paramedics”

“Farmers' stress levels and health seeking behaviours in respect to mental health needs”

“Growing older with a mother who has mental illness: Narratives on the impact and psychological adjustments made in adulthood.”

“Adult protection in the National Health Service”

“Paramedics Knowledge of Pharmacology in the UK”

“Supporting students on their first work based learning placement through the use of Web 2.0 tools”

“The Community Matrons Role”

“The concept of social intelligence and factors that determine its development within early year's pedagogical approaches”

“The experience of mental health student nurses who have attended their first placement and who have no previous experience in practice”

“Sex: a basic need and an aspect of being human which can not be separated from all other aspects of human life (WHO, 1975): so can the caring services assist people with physical disabilities become their sexual selves?”

“What are the organisational barriers to enabling the involvement of stroke survivors with communication disability in the planning of stroke services in Dorset?”

“Health status of and risks to Nepalese male migrant workers in Qatar”

“Investigation of inflammation, autonomic dysfunction and outcomes after bacterial infection: A longitudinal comparative study”

“Perspectives on Care amongst Afghan Maternity Health Care Providers”

“A participatory action research study to investigate the contribution of Community Matrons to support the self-management of patients with long- term conditions using a social learning framework”

“Women's experiences of breast cancer and Spiritual Healing: A Unitary Appreciative Inquiry”

“The Patient Journey Approach to Patient-Centred Healthcare Delivery”

“How significant is home for those entering later life”

“An investigation of the effects of manual therapy on cervical spine inter-vertebral motion patterns and the outcomes of treatment in patients with neck pain”

“Becoming and Being an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in England”

“Women's experiences in the early postnatal period of caring for their late preterm infants born 4-6 weeks premature”

“Support needs for diabetes self management: Exploring views from Maltese individuals with Type 2 Diabetes ”

“Exploring and explaining the life effects of Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (JHS): Part 1. Investigating reported functional impairments in those with JHS”

“A study of the availability and use of opium, cocaine, heroin and cannabis 1900 - 1922”

“The effect of personal birth or non personal birth on student midwives' experience of midwifery education and the impact that this may have on them in becoming advocates for women and their families in normalising birth”

“The voice of Mycobacterium Ulcerans (Buruli Ulcer) sufferers: An exploratory study to understand the illness experience and behaviour of people living with Buruli Ulcer in Amansie West District of Ghana”

“Managing Lifestyle Factors in People Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis”

“Are there other ways of knowing? Independent Midwive's experiences of utilising intuition during maternity care”

“How people interpret information about their back X-Rays”

“Preferred single occupancy interior design and décor features in hospital”

“What are the impacts of the 'Creating A Patient-Led NHS' White Paper (Department of Health 2005) on public health nursing practice in England?”

“Are there other ways of knowing? Midwives' experiences of utilising intuition during maternity care”

“Gaining a greater understanding from older stroke survivors of what integration means for them: A qualitative study”

“An investigation by reflective practice into the use of documentary video as a form of performative scholarship with particular reference to the Toblerone Project”

“"The Lived Experience of Vulnerability". Understanding healthcare vulnerability from a Gypsy/Travelling community: using a holistic heath care perspective.”

“Calling back body, mind, spirit and nature across militarized borders: holistic healing practices and their impact on Mexican women.”

“The Post-Qualifying Specialist Child Care Award and Self-Efficacy”

“A longitudinal study of weight variation in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer ”

“Autonomic function testing on patients with inflammatory disease ”

“A biomechanical assessment of passive recumbent inter-vertebral motion in the mid-lumbar spine in symptomatic and healthy participants”

“The relationship of myocardial blood flow with markers of inflammation and atheroma in patients with chest pain and normal coronary arteries”

“Use of web 2.0 for support of chronically ill people”

“The impact of 'student midwife case loading' on women's experiences of pregnancy, birth and early postnatal period: evidence for future curriculum delivery.”

“Heart based assessment and treatment in Psychotherapy: Combining Tibetan Vajrayana practice with Western focusing-oriented psychotherapy. ”

“Clinical Management of adults receiving home enteral tube feeding”

“Lay perspectives on thrombophilia genetics: a grounded theory”

“An innovative model of care for complex needs children in residential care”

“Using video diaries to explore women's experiences of breastfeeding in the early weeks.”

“An exploratory study of the role of Specialist Nurses in Malta and the development of a career framework.”

“An investigation to produce a generic methodology that will enable healthcare leaders to successfully manage variability within NHS clinical micro-systems ”

“Emotional Processing in Childbirth. An enquiry into the relationship between emotional processing and the development of postnatal depression and psychological ill-health in a cohort of child-bearing women”

“An exploration of the experience of patients who participate in research as co-learners with primary health care teams ”

“Risk factors and asymptomatic peripheral vascular disease (PVD) within the general population: Implications for prevention and health improvement”

“Evaluation of biological and lifestyle factors contributing to excess weight gain in women treated for early breast cancer”

“Met or Matched Expectations? What accounts for a successful back pain consultation in primary care?”

“It gave me relief…it gave me confidence" - the online health information seeking experiences of adults with chronic health conditions”

“A prospective case-record based study to establish the utility of a formal risk assessment tool to identify factors contributing to the successful or unsuccessful protection of children on the Child Protection Register 2002-2006”

“An Exploration of the lived experience of phantom bladder syndrome - an interpretative phenomenological analysis”

“The detection and clinical significance of TP53 dysfunction in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia”

“Mixed–methods evaluation of maternity care intervention in rural Nepal”