PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians - Meet our Trainees
This PhD programme will fund five clinical PhDs per year for five years. The students will be hosted across the consortium. The Consortium is led by Queen Mary University of London, its members are all nine current members of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) and the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Students will typically be based in the institution of their primary supervisor.
COHORT 1
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Emma Ladds - University of Oxford Project Title: What is the role of the therapeutic relationship in ‘modern’ General Practice? |
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Sarah Moore - University of Exeter Project Title: How would the refinement of urgent cancer referral criteria, by the inclusion of demographics, comorbidities and other covariates affect numbers of patients eligible for referral and their outcomes? |
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Pushpa Nair - University College London Project Title: Exploring person-centered care, care environments and care planning for people with dementia from South Asian backgrounds in the UK. |
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Lucy Potter - University of Bristol Project title: The Connection Study: Improving access to primary care for people with severe and multiple disadvantages |
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Hannah Wardman - University of Manchester Project Title: Improving the diagnosis and management of suspected IgE and non- IgE mediated food allergy in primary care |
COHORT 2
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Charlotte Morris - University of Manchester Project Title: Understanding and addressing socio-economic inequality within the quality and safety of care and outcomes for people living with dementia. |
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Anna Seeley - University of Oxford Project Title: Optimising cardioprotective medications in those living with frailty |
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Tom Kallis - University of Exeter Project Title: PPhoCUs: Polypharmacy, Pharmacists and Clinical Uncertainty. Exploring the role of primary care pharmacists making person centred decisions in the thickets of polypharmacy and clinical uncertainty. |
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Jessica Carter - Queen Mary University of London Project Title: Health Catch-UP! Transforming the delivery of infectious diseases screening for at-risk migrant patients in primary care |
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Sadaf Qureshi - University of Nottingham Project Title: The use of pharmacogenomics testing to guide prescribing in the UK primary care setting: mixed methods investigation to explore its potential in everyday clinical practice. |
COHORT 3
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James Coughlan - University of Manchester Project Title: Evaluating the impact of financing mechanisms on access to high quality primary dental care services. |
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Sarah McDiarmid - University of Manchester Project Title: Preparing for implementation of the DIabetes Severity SCOre (DISSCO) in general practice electronic health records. |
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Miriam Samuel - Queen Mary University of London Project Title: Can the use of genetics in primary care to personalise diabetes testing and treatment pathways reduce health inequalities affecting diverse communities? |
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Najia Sultan - Queen Mary University of London Project Title: Symptom appraisal and help-seeking in British Pakistanis with multimorbidity: an in-depth ethnographic case study |
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Joanna Simkins - Keele University Project Title: Osteoarthritis flares in primary care: developing information resources to support self-management |