Postgraduate Research Study
The School became a centre for registering postgraduate research students in 2000 and now has 35 registered students and offers an annual studentship competition.
The School of Healthcare has a vibrant postgraduate research culture and excellent facilities for PhD students. We can offer a broad range of research expertise to the postgraduate students, based around the school's key research themes: Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Medicines Management, Public Health, Symptom Management and Long-Term Conditions. We are active in collaborating with other Departments in the University and many of our postgraduate students are supervised jointly by academics from other departments, including Psychiatry, Psychology, Sociology & Social Policy, Centre for Research in Primary Care, Clinical Trials Unit, Medical Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Education and Religious Studies.
The School scored highly in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, with the majority of the School’s research in Nursing and Midwifery classed as 'world-leading' and 'internationally excellent' in terms of originality, significance and rigour. We work closely with other Schools and Institutes in the University, with other universities and NHS Trusts in the city and surrounding region.
The Postgraduate Research Tutor is the first point of enquiry for students and staff who are undertaking or wish to consider postgraduate research study in the School.
The Postgraduate Research Tutor is Bonnie Meekums, email b.meekums@leeds.ac.uk or call 0113 343 9414. Opportunities exist to undertake full or part-time study leading to the award of a PhD.
Current students and their research (by group):
Audiology and Clinical Physiology
Ted Killan
Simultaneous suppression of tone burst-evoked otoacoustic emissions Supervised by: Dr Nick Thyer, Prof. Mark Lutman & Dr John Truscott
Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM)
Mollie Nelson
Traditional Medicines and Cultural Identities. A study of the relationships between illness, social change and medical treatment options among the Mayan in the Central Highlands, Guatemala
Supervised by: Dr Phil Tovey & Prof Andrew Long
Health Systems Evaluation and Outcome Measurement
Nora Kilcullen
Clinical competencies in undergraduate nurses
Supervised by: Prof Claire Hale
Lynn Morra Philipp
Culture, Healing Practice Pluralism and Living with Ulcerative Colitis
Supervised by: Prof Kate Thomas & Prof Andrew Long
Sarah Price
The effects of acupuncture on the well-being of women with breast cancer
Supervised by: Prof Kate Thomas, Prof Andrew Long & Dr Mary Godfrey
Mireia Subirana
What are the outcomes of nursing interventions that contribute to better patient experience and outcome?
Supervised by: Prof Andrew Long & Dr Joanne Greenhalgh
Joanna Smith
Evaluating of shunt teaching package for carers of children with hydrocephalus
Supervised by: Prof Francine Cheater & Dr Hilary Bekker
Medicines Management
Jon Silcock
Self management of heart failure, a place in practice?
Supervised by: Prof Theo Raynor & Dr Karl Atkin
Julie Sowter
How can information about the benefit and harm of conventional and alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms be effectively conveyed to patients?
Supervised by: Dr Peter Knapp & Dr Louise Dye
Public Health
Hossein Ashtarian
Predictive validity of three Falls Assessment Tools STRTIFY, Morse Fall Scale (MFS) and the Risk Assessment for Falls Scale 11 (RAFS II)
Supervised by: Prof Francine Cheater, Dr Mike Woolridge & Dr Jill Firth
Judith Dyson
Using psychological theory to develop and test a tool for the implementation of evidence-based practice: the case of hand hygiene practice
Supervised by: Prof Francine Cheater, Dr Cath Jackson & Dr Rebecca Lawton
Jackie Ferguson
A comparison of lay and professional perceptions and interpretations of children's behaviour in relation to ADHD
Supervised by: Dr Peter Morrall & Dr Siobhan Hugh-Jones
Tony Gill
Quality of life and the "new anti-psychotics"
Supervised by: Dr Peter Morrall & Dr Peter Knapp
Mark Hardy
Concepts of 'dangerousness' applied to people with serious mental illness
Supervised by: Dr Peter Morrall & Dr Peter Knapp
Rabiya Majeed
Exploring the health literacy gap in South Asian populations
Supervised by: Prof Francine Cheater, Dr Cath Jackson & Dr Peter Knapp
Marilyn Rogers
An Exploration of Breastfeeding Women’s Experiences Following her Infant’s Diagnosis with Neonatal Hypernatraemic Dehydration.
Supervised by: Dr Mike Woolridge & Dr Janet Hirst
Symptom Management and Long Term Conditions
Elizabeth McGinnis
Heel pressure ulcers: A study of wound healing
Supervised by: Dr Andrea Nelson & Dr Jane Nixon
Tarnia Taverner
Pain in venous leg ulcers
Supervised by: Dr Michelle Briggs & Prof José Closs
