Doctoral students
Doctoral students
PhD and MD opportunities in General Practice and Primary Care
Current students
Name JORDAN CANNING
Degree PhD
Title Defining the relationship between inflammatory rheumatic disease and cardiometabolic risk: a precision medicine approach
Supervisors Stefan Siebert, Bhautesh Jani, Frances Mair, Barbara Nicholl
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2023
Name MARIANNE MCCALLUM
Degree PhD
Title Multimorbidity in the context Of Socioeconomic deprivation: A mixed methods exploration of how Individual and Community factors interact to influence patient capacity to manage multimorbidity (MOSAIC)
Supervisors Sara Macdonald, Frances Mair, Jim Lewsey
Funding Chief Scientist Office
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2023
Name FREDERICKE PETO
Degree PhD
Title Building (de)fences: empowering farmers to take action on disease control
Supervisors Sally Wyke, Lisa Boden, Frank Katzer, Kate O'Donnell
Funding LKAS Scholarship
Start year 2015
Intended finish year 2023
Name HAMISH FOSTER
Degree PhD
Title Understanding interactions between lifestyle and deprivation to support policy and intervention development
Supervisors Kate O'Donnell, Frances Mair, Jason Gill, Duncan Lee
Funding Medical Research Council (Clinical Research Training Fellowship)
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2023
Name NIKE OLAJIDE
Degree PhD
Title Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and cervical cancer screening in low and middle-income countries
Supervisors Katie Robb, Bhautesh Jani, Claire Niedzwiedz
Funding Federal Government of Nigeria
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2023
Name MOLLY GILMOUR
Degree PhD
Title How can we improve humanitarian healthcare in Lebanon?
Supervisors Mia Perry, Chris Bunn, Kate O Donnell
Funding LKAS
Start year 2018
Intended finish year 2023
Name JOAN QUIGLEY
Degree PhD
Title Evidence synthesis for healthcare policy: a case study of healthcare regionalisation
Supervisors Neil Hawkins, Kate O'Donnell
Funding Health Research Board (Ireland) and Health Information and Quality Authority (Ireland)
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2024
Name HARRISON D STUBBS
Degree MD
Title Remote monitoring in pulmonary hypertension
Supervisors Bhautesh Jani, Martin Johnson
Funding Self-funding
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2024
Name CHRISTINE PACITTI
Degree PhD
Title Investigating the use of pain medication in adults with learning disabilities: relationship with polypharmacy and impact on health-related outcomes
Supervisors Barbara Nicholl, Debbie Cairns, Laura Ward
Funding Baily Thomas Grant
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2025
Name CATRIN JONES
Degree PhD
Title Exploring burden of treatment, workload-capacity imbalance and workload trajectories in patients with kidney failure requiring replacement therapy (working title)
Supervisors Katie Gallacher, Karen Stevenson, Bhautesh Jani, Patrick Mark
Funding CSO Clinical Academic Fellowship
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name ESTHER DOWNHAM
Degree PhD
Title Advanced lung cancer care and the impact of socioeconomic deprivation in Greater Glasgow and Clyde: describing Best Supportive Care pathways and patients’ lived experience of care.
Supervisors Sara Macdonald, David Blane, Marie Fallon, Peter Hall
Funding Olav Kerr Endowment (University of Glasgow)
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026
Name MARYAM KHAN
Degree PhD
Title Exploring ethnic differences in pre-frailty and frailty in the middle-aged and older people
Supervisors Barbara Nicholl, Peter Hanlon
Funding Self-funding
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name PAUL ERHAHIEMEN
Degree PhD
Title Optimisation of the use of Digital Health (DH) interventions and tools within primary care in treating military personnel with Common Mental Health Disorders (CMD) by understanding the experience of treatment burden
Supervisors Kate O’Donnell, Barbara Nicholl, Katie Gallacher
Funding Self-funded
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2027
Completed students (2018 onwards) with links to e-versions of theses
Name FERGUS CHADWICK
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
Complex observation processes in ecology and epidemiology: general theory and specific examples
Name SIMIN WU
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
Exploration of the comorbidity of chronic pain, cardiometabolic disease and depression
Name HANAN ALMAJED
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
Breast cancer awareness among female residents of Kuwait
Name ALESSIO ALBANESE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
Exploring the mental health and psychosocial experiences of asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants in the post-migration context
Name MICHAEL SULLIVAN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
Interrogating disease clusters, multimorbidity and adverse outcomes in chronic kidney disease
Name PETER HANLON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Frailty in chronic diseases: prevalence and implications for clinical management
Name RONG XING
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Humour style plays a mediating effect between emotional intelligence and wellbeing in international students
Name AGHNAA GAYATRI
Degree PhD
Title Development of a context-based diabetes management model in Indonesia
Name DUNCAN MCNAB
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Exploring the impact on performance of general practice-based pharmacists: a multiple case study
Name ANNA BLACK
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
An exploration of the factors that influence how asylum seeking or refugee women access preventive healthcare, using cervical screening as a case study
Name ABDULAZIZ ALHENAIDI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2021
Identifying factors influencing the recruitment and retention of primary care doctors in Kuwait
Name ANNABEL FARNOOD
Degree PhD
Year of award 2021
The effects of online self-diagnosis and health information seeking on the patient-healthcare professional relationship
Name KEIRA JOHNSTON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2021
Investigating causal relationships between major depression and chronic pain using UK general-population datasets with whole-genome genotyping
Name HANNAH SCOBIE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2021
Understanding lung cancer screening participation
Name THAMER ABDULLAH S ALSLAMAH
Degree PhD
Year of award 2020
Cultural adaptation of self-management models for Type 2 Diabetes in Saudi Arabia
Name SIOBHÁN O'CONNOR
Degree PhD
Year of award 2020
Exploring the eHealth implementation journey: factors affecting patient and public engagement and recruitment to digital health
Name DAVID HENDERSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Multimorbidity and social care: exploiting emerging administrative data sources in Scotland
Name RUTH AGBAKOBA
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Factors affecting the implementation of a national digital health and wellbeing service at scale
Name LAMIA AL ARADI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
Assessing the impact of healthcare accreditation from the perspective of professionals in primary healthcare centres: A mixed methods case study from Kuwait
Name GHEED ALSALAM
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
Assessment of safety climate in Kuwaiti public hospitals
Name AZARI ALHALEEL
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
Implementing a national accreditation programme in Kuwaiti hospitals: understanding the impact, facilitators and barriers using a multiple methods approach
Name DAVID BLANE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
Understanding the role of primary care in the management of adults with co-morbid obesity: a mixed-methods programme
Name ANNA ISAACS
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
Keeping healthy and accessing primary and preventive health services in Glasgow: the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers from Sub Saharan Africa
Name CARL DE WET
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
A mixed-methods study of the implementation of the Trigger Review Method in general practice using normalization process theory
Name SHARON BYRNE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
The development and evaluation of a mindfulness-based intervention for incarcerated young men
Name BREANNON BABBEL
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Tackling health inequalities in primary care: an exploration of GPs' experience at the front line
Name ROBERT SIMPSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Mindfulness-based interventions for people with multiple sclerosis
Name KATIE GALLACHER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
An exploration of treatment burden and patient capacity in people with stroke
Name BHAUTESH JANI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Exploring the potential role of allostatic load biomarkers in risk assessment of patients presenting with depressive symptoms
Name DEBORAH MORRISON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Supported self care for asthma: development and evaluation of an online interactive resource
Name FIONA SMITH
Degree PhD
Year of award 2015
The ongoing care of patients with cancer: what is the appropriate balance between primary and secondary care?
Name MAX COOPER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Migrants’ health beliefs and their impact on general practice encounters: an in-depth interview study of French- and Swahili-speaking Africans and general practitioners working with migrant patients
Name SUSAN BROWNE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2013
Colorectal cancer and socio-economic factors: an exploration of the patient experience
Name JOHN O'DOWD
Degree MD
Year of award 2013
Understanding stakeholder perspectives on the organisation of primary care: the mediating role of the public in community governance
Name JENNA-MARIE MULLEN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2013
The relationship between empathy, self-management support and anticipatory care in primary care consultations in areas of high and low socio-economic deprivation
Name RICHARD LOWRIE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2012
A cluster randomised controlled trial of pharmacist-led statin outreach support in primary care
Name DAVID CUNNINGHAM
Degree PhD
Year of award 2012
A grounded theory study of protected learning time
Name ANDREA WILLIAMSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2011
Patients who are repeatedly removed from GP lists: analysing the "revolving door"
Name SARA MACDONALD
Degree PhD
Year of award 2011
An exploration of lay epidemiology and cancer
Name MICHAEL SMITH
Degree MD
Year of award 2010
"Doing Well": an initiative to improve depression care
Name JULIE MAITLAND
Degree PhD
Year of award 2009
From persuasion to negotiation in health promoting technology
Name YINGYING WANG
Degree PhD
Year of award 2009
Urban single-handed general practice in Scotland
Name HUSSEIN JABAREEN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2009
An exploration of the roles of practice nurses and GPs in delivering primary health care
Name PAULINE CRAIG
Degree PhD
Year of award 2008
An exploratory study of inequalities in mental health in primary care in Scotland