Current DPhil projects

Our doctoral students currently enrolled in our DPhil's are pursuing research across a diverse range of areas. Scroll through to learn more about their individual projects and areas of focus.

DPhil Primary Health Care projects

Ruya Abdulsalam

Individual level behavioural interventions to mitigate the risk of type 2 diabetes following pregnancy in people who have had gestational diabetes.

Lucy Abel

What are women's preferences for valuing fetal health outcomes in cost-effectiveness analysis?

Francesca Dakin

COVID-19: The long recovery. Learning from the experiences of primary care workers to improve staff wellbeing and working conditions

Roisin Dillon

Improving the management of patient risk in urgent primary care

Sharon Dixon

What knowledge would support improving the management of teenagers with dysmenorrhoea in primary care?

William Elson

Evaluation and improvement of respiratory infectious disease surveillance using primary care-based electronic health records

Christian Farrier

Early Diagnosis of Childhood Chronic Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Coeliac Disease

Tori Ford

Experiences and Challenges with Recurrent Vulvovaginal Thrush in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study

Becky Garnett

Exploring how to engage patients and informal caregivers in deprescribing conversations

Clare Goyder

Improving the detection of heart failure in primary care: A mixed methods study to examine patient experience of heart failure diagnosis and the accuracy and acceptability of natriuretic peptide screening

Yicen Guo

Medical CA- Interactional Benefits and Challenges of Companions' Participation in Triadic Medical Consultations: A Conversation Analysis Perspective

Anisa Hajizadeh

Evaluating the management of obesity in UK primary care

Hassan Sami Adnan

Human-Centred AI Design to Develop Digital Health Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions

Isabel Hanson

The treatment gap: youth mental health from policy to practice in primary care

Laura Heath

How has the delivery to remote consulting affected the delivery of preventative interventions?

Ishbel Henderson

MULtiple long term conditions Targeted Interventions (MULTI): Can identification of changes in activity be incorporated into an early warning system to allow earlier interventions for people with multiple long-term conditions?

Trenton Honda

The epidemiology of UTI and antibiotic resistant uropathogens

Jemma Houghton

Examining the prevention and management of diabetes-associated lower limb complication risk in the Cape Metropolitan region of South Africa using a mixed method approach

Duha Kalthoum

Population Segmentation to Inform Health Policy: An Analysis of Eastern Health Cluster, Saudi Arabia

Bakita Kasadha

Understanding the experiences of UK-based peer/community-based researchers navigating co-production within academically-led health research

Sabrina Keating

Understanding Diagnostic Delay in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Mixed Methods Approach

Kornelija Kildonaviciute

Managing penicillin allergy in primary care: an important but neglected aspect of antibiotic stewardship

Layla Lavallee

Exploring the postnatal care experiences of vulnerable women with hypertensive disease in pregnancy - an intervention development thesis.

Fahad Al-Huda

Developing interventions to address behavioural risk factors of people with Mental Illness

Joseph Lee

Preventing infection-related cardiovascular disease in primary care

Jeremy Leslie-Spinks

PAINSONG. A narrative study of career-changing injury and illness in elite professional dancers, with implications for clinicians

Meredith Leston

Innovating within a National Disease Surveillance Network to Differentiate Vaccine Benefit-Risk in the Immunosuppressed

Melissa Little

Weight Management in Adolescents

Abigail Moore

Understanding acute functional decline and its relationship to UTI in older people living in care homes

Elizabeth Morris

Dietary management of type 2 diabetes in primary care

Ashley Murray

Developing and validating a risk prediction model for cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV using novel biomarkers

Olu Onyimadu

Health economic aspects of childhood obesity

Anna Pun

Testing the impact of interventions to encourage consumption of lower-alcohol or lower-calorie alcoholic drinks

Laura Armitage

Investigating the health and economic benefits of a novel pathway for detecting undiagnosed hypertension in adults, using routinely collected data

Catharina Savelkoul

iCASE: GPs labour trajectories and patients’ health outcomes in general practices

Jessica Schiff

Strategies for thermal comfort interventions targeting socio-economic disparities

Anna Seeley

How can frailty be used to help guide deprescribing of cardioprotective medications in older adults

Kathryn Sheridan

Utilisation of Digital Health for Infertility: Investigating the Influence of Fertility Tracking on Patient Attitudes and Behaviours

Amelia Talbot

Generating a comprehensive understanding of people’s and GPs’ experiences of diagnosing, managing, and treating treatment resistant depression to improve care pathways

Annika Theodoulou

Investigating and addressing socioeconomic inequalities in smoking cessation behaviours and outcomes

Tiffany Truong

Discrete choice experiment (DCE) to understand variation in uptake of respiratory disease vaccination

Elena Tsompanaki

The impact of weight loss programmes on disordered eating

Amadea Turk

Understanding social prescribing in socially and economically disadvantaged settings: A mixed-methods study of link worker interactions and networks

Francis Ayomoh

Improving task-shifting for the delivery of maternal healthcareServices: a multi-method case study of policy and practice in the federal capital territory in Nigeria

Jo Wallinger

The educational and employment experiences of young people and adults with developmental language disorder: experience-informed research

Denise Bastas

Implement a standard program within primary care settings to target the physical activity discussion practices of primary care physicians

Lin Bowker-Lonnecker

Using Emerging Technologies to Tackle Large Scale Health Challenges in Primary Care

Elif Çoker

Design and implementation of social norm driven behavioral interventions to reduce meat consumption

Rosie Cooper

Realist Evaluation of a digital self-care intervention to improve the long-term management and outcomes of people affected by coeliac disease

Amy Booth

Decarbonising the pharmaceutical supply chain: A multi-methods study of greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction initiatives across the United Kingdom’s pharmaceutical supply chain

Isabela Cabrera Lalinde

Exploring the role of vaccine hesitancy in relation to vaccine development to build greater confidence in novel vaccines

Laiba Husain

The shift to video consultations and its implications on digital health disparities

Emma Ladds

The role of the therapeutic relationship in modern primary care

Michelle Yeung

Disrupting Dermatology: How are direct-to-consumer AI-enabled mHealth applications impacting healthcare-seeking and healthcare-provision for skin concerns within the NHS?

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Current DPhil projects

DPhil Primary Health Care projects

Ruya Abdulsalam

DPhil Translational Health Sciences projects

Amy Booth