DPhil projects
Maryam Ahmadyar
Understanding interventions to improve access of homeless people to general dental services in England: A realist review and evaluation
Supervisors: Dr Geoff Wong
Ali Albasri
Optimising the management of hypertension in pharmacies
Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus, Dr James Sheppard, Dr Suman Prinjha
Charlotte Albury
Using conversation analysis to evaluate and design a brief weight loss intervention in primary care
Supervisors: Professor Paul Aveyard, Professor Sue Ziebland, Dr Liz Stokoe (Loughborough University)
Predicting inhaled steroid responsiveness using near-patient testing: personalising long-term management of COPD in primary care
Supervisors: Professor Chris Butler, Dr Emily McFadden, Dr Margaret Smith, Dr Mona Badfahel (NDM)
Understanding ‘Pre-Diabetes’ From The Patient’s Perspective. A mixed-methods qualitative study to improve the success of diabetes prevention strategies
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Dr Sara Shaw
Filippo Bianchi
Developing and evaluating behavioural interventions to reduce meat consumption
Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb, Dr Brian Cook
Niklas Bobrovitz
Identifying and prioritising interventions to reduce emergency hospital admissions
Supervisors: Professor Carl Heneghan, Dr Kamal Mahtani
Using Audit and Feedback to Create Positive Change in Clinical Trials Transparency
Supervisors: Professor Carl Heneghan, Dr Kamal Mahtani, Dr Ben Goldacre
Point-of-care viral load testing and mHealth adherence support to enhance primary care HIV services in South Africa
Supervisors: Professor Chris Butler; Dr Gail Hayward
Oluwaseun Esan
Estimating the burden of complication from common gastrointestinal infections and remediable factors that contribute to this burden
Supervisors: Professor Rafael Perera, Dr Thomas Fanshawe, Professor Noel McCarthy (Warwick Medical School), Dr Mara Violato (NDPH)
Kerstin Frie
Development and feasibility testing of an intervention to support people to lose weight through daily weighing.
Supervisors: Professor Paul Aveyard, Professor Susan Jebb, Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
Kome Gbinigie
The diagnosis and management of bacterial infections in older adults
Supervisors: Professor Carl Heneghan, Professor Chris Butler, Dr Anne-Marie Boylan
Clare Goyder
Pathway of Patients Diagnosed with Heart Failure in Primary Care
Supervisors: Professor Richard Hobbs, Dr Clare Taylor
Towards a framework for the incorporation of Big Data throughout the NHS primary care commissioning cycle: a realist synthesis and evaluation
Supervisors: Dr Geoff Wong, Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi
Self-management and self-testing of blood pressure and proteinuria during hypertensive pregnancy
Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus, Dr Kath Tucker
Reducing stroke risk for patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation in primary care
Supervisors: Professor Richard Hobbs, Dr Clare Taylor
The Operational and Clinical Impact of Regulatory Change on Pharmacy Practice: The Implementation of the European Union Falsified Medicines Directive in the United Kingdom
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor Gary Ford (RDM), Professor Sue Dopson (SBS)
Hybrid managers in primary health care: balancing excellence and effectiveness
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh
Tonny Muthee
Targeted prevention and management of cardiovascular risk in low and middle income countries; an implementation intervention for cardiovascular risk scoring in Kenya
Supervisor: Professor Carl Heneghan, Dr Veronika Williams, Dr David Nunan, Dr Anthony Etyang (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Brian Nicholson
Weight loss as a predictor of cancer in primary care
Supervisors: Professor Richard Hobbs, Professor Paul Aveyard, Professor Willie Hamilton (University of Exeter Medical School)
Sarah Payne Riches
Development and feasibility testing of a behavioural intervention to reduce salt intake
Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb, Professor Paul Aveyard, Dr Carmen Piernas-Sanchez
Louise Pealing
OPTIMUM-BP: self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy
Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus, Professor Sue Ziebland, Dr Lucy Chappell (Kings College London).
Caitlin Pilbeam
Living whilst dying: exploring a life worth living with heart failure
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Dr Caroline Potter (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography)
Jessica Price
A comparison of the epidemiology of in-hospital and at-home childhood deaths in rural South Africa and suggested health systems interventions
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Harnden, Dr Merlin Willcox (University of Southampton), Dr Kathleen Kahn (WITS University)
Georgia Richards
Optimising the prescribing of analgesics: an evidence-based approach to reduce inappropriate prescribing
Supervisors: Professor Carl Heneghan, Dr Kamal Mahtani, Dr Ben Goldacre
Markus Schichtel
Optimising the implementation of advance care planning in heart failure
Supervisors: Professor Rafael Perera, Professor Bee Wee, Dr John MacArtney
Improving GPs' knowledge of benefits and harms of treatments to support decision making in multimorbidity: qualitative research and co-design
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Dr Kamal Mahtani, Dr Joanna Crocker, Professor Gina Neff (OII)
Supporting successful self-management strategies for people living with chronic pain who have been excluded from pain programmes
Supervisors: Dr Sara Shaw, Professor Alan Silman (NDORMS)
Implementation of obesity treatments into primary care
Supervisors: Professor Richard Hobbs, Professor Sue Ziebland, Professor Paul Aveyard, Dr Kate Tudor, Professor John Bell (MSD), Professor Robbie Foy (University of Leeds)
Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen
Translating policy into practice: reducing nosocomial Tuberculosis transmission in South Africa
Supervisors: Professor Chris Butler; Dr Sarah Tonkin-Crine