Supervisors
Please click on the name of the supervisor to follow a link to their webpage. We recommend contacting a potential supervisor with your research outline before submitting a formal application, please read our guidelines for writing your research outline first. Please only contact one supervisor. If another supervisor is better suited to your project, we will redirect your query.
Dr Alison Blank
Expertise: phenomenological research methods exploring existential topics around human occupation, meaning and belonging. Current research is focused on physical activity and ageing.
Professor Eleanor Bradley
Expertise: adult mental health; medicines conversations (information-exchange, concordance); family input and support (shared decision making, coproduction); non-medical prescribing; qualitative research; health psychology.
Self-funded project: Pain Levels and Pre-Operative Anxiety within Cardiac Care
Professor Dawn Brooker
Expertise: dementia studies; clinical psychology; ageing.
Self-funded project: Evaluating an enriched care management approach to improving quality of life for people living with dementia in the community.
Self-funded project: Exploring models for supporting people with dementia in housing with care settings.
Dr Shirley Evans
Expertise: dementia research; post-diagnostic support; technology and inclusion; lifelong learning. Research methodological experience with realist review and evaluation; phenomenological approaches; user involvement and action research.
Self-funded project: Experiences, needs, interventions and outcomes of family carers of persons with dementia
Dr Simon Evans
Expertise: dementia research; research ethics; retirement housing; user involvement in research.
Self-funded project: Evaluating an enriched care management approach to improving quality of life for people living with dementia in the community.
Self-funded project: Exploring models for supporting people with dementia in housing with care settings.
Dr Katherine Gordon-Smith
Research specialisms: comorbidities (physical and psychiatric) of major mood disorders
Research methodologies: quantitative, longitudinal mood measures in bipolar disorder.
Professor Lisa Jones
Research specialisms: aetiology of major mood disorders (including bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis).
Research methodologies: quantitative, longitudinal measures in major mood disorders.
Self-funded project: Atopic diseases in bipolar disorder.
Dr Tim Kilner
Expertise: urgent and acute pre-hospital care, and major incident triage
Dr John Leah
Expertise: public health; health and sustainability.
Professor Derek Peters
Expertise: Physical activity & sedentary behaviour assessment, intervention & relationships to health & wellbeing in all populations; childhood overweight & obesity; Exercise for health & wellbeing; sport performance analysis; interdisciplinary sport & exercise science. Research methodologies: Quantitative & qualitative.
Self-funded project: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, Health & Wellbeing PhD Studentship Opportunities.
Dr Raluca Sarbu
Expertise: qualitative research in social work, children safeguarding, fostering, roma/gypsy communities, intervention methods in social work.
Dr Clive Sealey
Expertise: social policy; poverty; policy analysis; comparative policy analysis; qualitative research methods.
Professor Jo Smith
Expertise: Psychosis, Bipolar Disorder, Psychosocial and family interventions, Student Mental Health, Student Suicide Prevention
Dr Yvonne Thomas
Expertise: Qualitative research methods to explore Wellbeing and Occupational participation, homelessness, marginalised and excluded populations, and AHP professional practice.
Dr Peter Unwin
Expertise: safeguarding and child sexual exploitation; fostering; privatisation/agency social work; service user/carer involvement.