Our PhD Fellowships are at the University of Manchester and cover a wide range of research topics with access to excellent training opportunities.
Our ARC-GM PhD Fellowships are at the University of Manchester and cover a wide range of research topics with access to excellent training opportunities.
We are committed to supporting the development of outstanding researchers wishing to conduct applied research that has the potential to deliver an impact on patients, public and policy regionally and nationally.
We work with world-leading academics to support our PhD Fellows.
Year of study:
Commenced October 2020/21
PhD title:
Effective implementation of digital technologies: A realist evaluation of how virtual and augmented reality can help to up-skill home care workers in hand hygiene practices
Supervisor(s):
Prof. Dawn Dowding, Dr. Sabine van der Veer & Paul Wilson
Research interests:
Norina is an eHealth enthusiast, with a particular interest in the evaluation and implementation of innovative digital health technologies. She has previously worked with robots, patient portals, social media and mobile apps.
Research summary:
Norina is planning to conduct a study using realist evaluation methods to explore how virtual and augmented reality can help to up-skill home care workers in hand hygiene practices. As part of her development she has been invited to attend meetings of the Digital Health Research Interest Group in the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, and is participating in journal clubs and postgraduate student activities (including presenting at the PGR student conference) in the eHealth Research Centre.
Publications
Poster(s)/Presentation(s):
Year of study:
Commenced October 2020/21
PhD title:
Measuring Mental Health Resilience at a Population Level
Supervisor(s):
Dr Luke Munford, Prof. Roger Webb and Prof. Peter Bower.
Research interests:
Public health, mental health, implementation science, healthy ageing
Research summary:
Resilience in a key facet in positive mental health. The majority of early research on mental health resilience focused on individual level interventions. More recently there has been a growing focus on community resilience, in response to threats such as climate change, economic recession and COVID-19. The measurement of community level resilience is an emerging field, with most frameworks focusing on disaster resilience. Christine will explore the development of a mental health related framework for measuring community resilience in England using secondary data sources.
Year of study:
Commenced October 2020/21
PhD title:
Commissioning form and function in place-based health and care
Supervisor(s):
Prof. Kath Checkland, Dr Jonathan Stokes, & Dr Lynsey Warwick-Giles
Research interests:
Research summary:
Melissa’s PhD research focuses on how health and care commissioning is changing with the introduction of place-based partnerships and Integrated Care Systems. In particular she is looking at how place is defined in health and social care policy; how commissioning functions are distributed at system, place and neighbourhood level; and what governance and accountability mechanisms underpin this.
More information about Melissa's research is available from her PhD project page here
Presentations:
Commissioning and place-based partnership: where are we now, and what next? (Health Service Research UK 2022)
Defining place in health and care policy (Health Service Research UK 2021)
Posters:
Blogs:
Year of study:
Commenced October 2020/21
PhD title:
Enhancing engagement with between-session work in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based interventions
Supervisor(s):
Prof. Penny Bee, Dr. Amy Blakemore & Prof. Karina Lovell
Research interests:
With a background as a Psychological Well-being Practitioner, Mia’s main research interest areas are low intensity interventions and guided self-help.
Research summary:
Mia is undertaking a study is to enhance patient engagement with between-session work in Low Intensity (LI) CBT-based interventions, by seeking to further understand what, how and why factors affect patient engagement with between-session work, the findings of this study can inform future patient information resources, workforce training guidelines and service planning.
More information about Mia's research is available from her PhD project page here
Poster(s)/Presentation(s):
Year of study:
Commenced October 2021/22
PhD title:
An investigation of the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and health care use: short and long term effects
Supervisor(s):
Dr. Laura Anselmi & Prof. Matt Sutton
Research summary:
More information about Charlie's research is available from her PhD project page here...
Year of study:
Commenced October 2021/22
Year of study:
Commenced October 2021/22
PhD title:
What motivated older adult volunteers to participate in peer mentoring schemes?
Supervisor(s):
Dr Helen Hawley-Hague and Professor Chris Todd.
Research interests:
Helena’s research interests and PhD fall around the topic of healthy ageing. She is particularly interested in utilising the older adult population as peer-volunteers to increase their physical activity levels, and also to increase the activity levels of other older adults who are less active.
Year of study:
Commenced October 2021/22
PhD title:
What is the solution to emergency department pressures?
Supervisor(s):
Dr William Whittaker & Dr Yiu-Shing Lau.
Research interests:
Liwei has a strong enthusiasm for health economics, with an interest in exploring health systems, evaluating effects of health policies and improving equality of accessing to health services.
Research summary:
Liwei’s PhD project aims to find the drivers of winter pressures in emergency department and evaluate existing schemes for reducing these pressures in Greater Manchester or nationally.
If you would like further information about any aspect of our PhD Fellowships please contact:
Senior Programme Lead