Current DPhil projects
Extending the cost-utility framework to include health outcomes for both mother and baby in the economic evaluation of interventions in pregnancy
Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus; Dr Lisa Hinton; Dr Oliver Rivero-Arias (NDPH); Dr Helen Dakin (NDPH)
Understanding interventions to improve access of homeless people to general dental services in England: A realist review and evaluation
Supervisors: Professor Geoff Wong; Dr Blenaid Daly (Trinity College Dublin)
Investigating the health and economic benefits of a novel pathway for detecting undiagnosed hypertension in adults, using routinely collected data
Supervisors: Professor Andrew Farmer; Professor Stavros Petrou; Dr Thomas Fanshawe; Professor Peter Watkinson (NDCN)
Improving Task-shifting and Task-sharing to support essential healthcare services in Nigeria: A mixed-methods study
Supervisors: Professor Sara Shaw
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; Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi
Stratifying medicines for prevention of cardiovascular disease in Primary Care
Supervisors: Dr James Sheppard; Professor Richard Hobbs; Dr Sarah Lay-Flurrie
Personalised breast cancer screening: development &validation of a novel approach using the high dimensional data source QResearch &linked data [DPhil in Cancer Science, hosted by NDPCHS]
Supervisors: Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox
Design and implementation of social norm and identity driven behavioral interventions for reducing meat consumption
Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb; Dr Kerstin Frie; Dr Rachel Pechey
Clinical Trial Registries and Results Reporting: Barriers and Best Practices
Supervisors: Professor Carl Heneghan; Dr Ben Goldacre
What knowledge would support improving the management of teenagers with dysmenorrhoea in primary care?
Supervisors: Professor Sue Ziebland; Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox; Professor Katy Vincent (NDWRH)
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
Improving the diagnosis and management of bacterial infections in primary care, with a focus on selected subgroups
Supervisors: Professor Carl Heneghan; Professor Chris Butler; Dr Anne-Marie Boylan
Hypertension Self-Management in Pregnancy
Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus; Dr Kath Tucker
Screening for heart failure in the community: Exploring the potential role of natriuretic peptides
Supervisors: Professor Richard Hobbs; Dr Clare Taylor; Dr Tom Fanshawe; Dr Lisa Hinton
Towards a framework for the incorporation of Big Data throughout the NHS primary care commissioning cycle: a realist synthesis and evaluation
Supervisors: Professor 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; Dr Nick Fahy; Dr Andrew Papanikitas; Professor Steven Reid (University of Cape Town)
An Intervention to Encourage Healthier Food Purchasing: SCOPA (Sugar Swaps for Non Communicable Disease Prevention App)
Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb; Dr Carmen Piernas-Sanchez
Preventing infection-related cardiovascular disease in primary care
Supervisors: Dr James Sheppard; Dr Constantinos Koshiaris; Professor Richard Hobbs
Researching patient-doctor dialogue in linguistic-phenomenological perspectives. "Painsong - exploring the lived-body experience of damaged dancers"
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Dr Marta Arnaldi (MML)
The use of a digital application to treat overweight and obesity in children: A feasibility study
Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb; Professor Paul Aveyard; Dr Tanisha Spratt
Dietary interventions to prevent gestational diabetes
Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb; Dr Nerys Astbury; Dr Lucy Mackillop (NDWRH)
Dietary management of type 2 diabetes in primary care
Supervisors: Professor Paul Aveyard; Professor Susan Jebb
The prevention and management of cardiovascular risk in Kenyan primary care settings
Supervisor: Professor Carl Heneghan; Dr Veronika Williams; Dr David Nunan; Dr Anthony Etyang (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Health economic aspects of childhood obesity
Supervisors: Professor Stavros Petrou; Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox; Professor Susan Jebb; Dr Mara Violato (NDPH)
OPTIMUM-BP: self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy
Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus; Professor Sue Ziebland; Dr Lucy Chappell (Kings College London).
Including Persons with Disabilities in Health Systems: Measuring Disparities and Improving Outcomes
Supervisors: Dr Sara Ryan; Dr Emily McFadden
Understanding the early presenting features and long-term complications of childhood and adolescent cancer
Supervisors: Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox; Professor Anthony Harnden
Generating a Comprehensive Understanding of People’s and GPs’ Experiences of Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of TRD
Supervisors: Dr Sara Ryan; Dr Charlotte Albury
Overuse and underuse of diagnostic tests and treatments in paediatric primary care
Supervisor: Professor Carl Heneghan; Professor Rafael Perera
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)
Exploring the relationship between social prescribing and community networks in different socio-economic areas
Supervisors: Dr Kamal Mahtani; Professor Catherine Pope; Dr Stephanie Tierney; Professor Bernie Hogan (OII)
Jo Wallinger
The educational and employment experiences of young people and adults with invisible neurodevelopmental disorders: patient-led research
Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Professor Maggie Snowling (EP)
Supporting successful self-management strategies for people living with chronic pain: a mixed methods study focused on those who have been excluded from or dropped out of pain management services
Supervisors: Dr Sara Shaw; Professor Alan Silman (NDORMS)
From Evidence and Guidelines To Implementation: Development and Feasibility Testing the Implementation of a Brief Behavioural Intervention for Weight Loss
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; Prof Rodney Ehrlich (University of Cape Town)
Developing the evidence for active intervention to support smoking cessation in cardiovascular disease
Supervisors: Professor Paul Aveyard; Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce; Dr Nicola Lindson