Research students
Name SUNHA AHN
Degree PhD
Title Social identity reconstruction through digital interaction among South African youths (16–24 ages) living with HIV
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Bridgette Wessels
Funding Self-funded
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2024
Name HESHAM ALFEHEID
Degree PhD
Title Health and lifestyle among office and construction workers: insights to forming future intervention strategies
Supervisors Jason Gill, Cindy Gray, Emilie Combet, Stuart Gray
Funding The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2024
Name SABREEN BATARFI
Degree PhD
Title The Feasibility of Implementing Asset-Based Approaches to Health in Saudi Rural Communities.
Supervisors Alistair Hunter, Sandy Whitelaw
Funding The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2024
Name AHMAD BINMAHFOZ
Degree PhD
Title Resistance exercise and weight loss
Supervisors Stuart Gray, Cindy Gray
Funding Saudi Arabia Government
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2024
Name MARIA BISSETT
Degree PhD
Title Development of a transcultural arts-based participatory approach to exploring the drivers of noncommunicable diseases among Black communities in Scotland and Malawi
Supervisors Cindy Gray, Christopher Bunn
Funding College of Social Sciences (CoSS) PhD Scholarship
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2024
Name JOSEF BROWN
Degree PhD (part time)
Title An ethnographic exploration of the everyday lives of 51 heroin-using people in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Supervisors Lucy Pickering, Susan Batchelor, Sally Wyke
Funding University of the West of Scotland
Start year 2013
Intended finish year 2024
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 2024
Name MARIA FERNANDA GABLER TRISOTTI
Degree PhD
Title Effects of home-based resistance exercise programmes on muscle fitness, well-being, thoughts and perceptions of healthy adults
Supervisors Jason Gill, Stuart Gray, Cindy Gray
Funding ANID Chile, Beca Chile Scholarship
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2024
Name ACKSON TYSON MWALE
Degree PhD
Title Developing a one health approach to the management of trypanosomiasis across communities and the vet, conservation, and medical sectors in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia.
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Neil Anderson
Funding University of Edinburgh/ University of Glasgow Joint PhD Studentships
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2024
Name SIQI QIAO
Degree PhD
Title Health, Income Inequality, and Risk in the Past and Present
Supervisors Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Rebecca Mancy
Funding University of Glasgow (College of Social Sciences Scholarship)
Intended finish year 2024
Name DAVID ANDREW ROSS
Degree PhD
Title From cradle to grave: risk factors for mental health in the British Army
Supervisors Beverly Bergman, Evi Germeni, Daniel Mackay
Funding Internal
Start year 2018
Intended finish year 2024
Name SUSIE SMILLIE
Degree PhD
Title Understanding how young people experience school holidays
Supervisors Stephanie Chambers, Nick Watson
Funding College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2024
Name GILLIAN STEWART
Degree PhD in Social and Public Health
Title Urban health inequalities and socioeconomic conditions in Glasgow, Manchester and Nancy, 1850-1950
Supervisors Rebecca Mancy, Konstantinos Angelopoulos
Funding ESRC [grant number ES/P000681/1]
Intended finish year 2024
Name REBECCA TOTTERDELL
Degree PhD
Title The School Allergy Care Project. How well prepared are Scottish schools in managing anaphylaxis? Delivering training and developing protocols to safely manage allergies in school
Supervisors Konstantinos Gerasimidis, George Raptis, Evi Germeni
Funding University of Glasgow and Viatris
Start year 2018
Intended finish year 2024
Name OLIVER TRAYNOR
Degree PhD
Title A feasibility study of outdoor nature-based provision in Glasgow's early learning and childcare sector
Supervisors Paul McCrorie, Anne Martin, Nai Rui Chng
Funding Medical Research Council (1 + 3 years) and Glasgow City Council
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2024
Name NAFSIKA ZARKOU
Degree PhD
Title Muslim Pakistani Women’s experiences caring for disabled children in Scotland: an intersectional exploration of motherhood, family life, disability, and state support.
Supervisors Nughmana Mirza, Phillippa Wiseman, Lucy Pickering
Funding ESRC
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2024
Name MO AL-HADDAD
Degree PhD
Title Health professions education
Supervisors Susan Jamieson, Evi Germeni
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2025
Name EILIDH BOWIE
Degree PhD
Title The horror of the good death: Narratives of death in horror, post-1970
Supervisors Gavin Miller, Timothy Jones (Stirling), Marian Krawczyk
Funding Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2025
Name MARIA IZZO
Degree PhD
Title Who cares for the carers? Negotiating transnational social protection among older Ukrainian care workers in Italy
Supervisors Alistair Hunter, Sara Bernard
Funding College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2025
Name NATALIE MOFFAT
Degree PhD
Title Reusable menstrual products in practice: exploring the material-discursive mattering of menstrual care
Supervisors Lucy Pickering, Phillippa Wiseman
Funding ESRC (+3) studentship
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2025
Name NICHELLE SANTAGATA
Degree PhD
Title Black Women's Mental Health and Healing Through Autoethnography and Arts-Based Methods
Supervisors Giovanni Picker, Jude Robinson
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2025
Name ANDREA ST. HILAIRE
Degree PhD
Title Exploring the moral experiences of seriously ill young people
Supervisors Marian Krawczyk, Alexander Whitelaw, Mary Ellen MacDonald (Dalhousie)
Funding Self Funded
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2025
Name HUI WANG
Degree PhD
Title Teaching critical thinking in universities: Comparing China with the West
Supervisors Stuart Hanscomb, Marian Krawczyk
Funding Self Funded
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2025
Name HANOUF ALQURASHI
Degree PhD
Title An international comparison of the integration dynamics of International Medical Graduates
Supervisors Alistair Hunter, Kate O’Donnell
Funding The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name AFNAN ALAQL
Degree PhD
Title Exploration of the social and psychological challenges faced by men and women after divorce: A gender and age-based comparison in Saudi Arabia
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Thees Spreckelsen
Funding Saudi Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026
Name TSION AFEWORK HABTE
Degree PhD
Title Exploring gendered mental health issues in a One Health context with a pastoralist community in the Afar region of Ethiopia
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Diego Maria Malara, Sarah Cleaveland
Funding CoSS PhD Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026
Name YUANTAO HUANG
Degree PhD
Title Qualitative Research in Health Technology Assessment: Advancing Methods and Applications
Supervisors Evi Germeni, Sharon Greenwood
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026
Name HAO LI
Degree PhD
Title Evaluating the gender-based health inequalities in the post-industrial French department: Pas-de-Calais
Supervisors Gerry McCartney, Stephanie Chambers
Funding self-funded
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name HAYA S M A MALALLAH
Degree PhD
Title Childhood obesity in the digital era
Supervisors Anne Martin
Funding Kuwait Government
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name KASSANDRA MOOSBRUGGER
Degree PhD
Title Future pathways towards sustainable cycling transitions in Glasgow: The gender gap and mobility justice
Supervisors Cindy Gray, Emma Lawlor, Jason Gill, Ria Dunkley
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name AHMED NUR MUSE
Degree PhD
Title Social determinants of health: understanding factors affecting access to maternal and child healthcare services by nomads in Somaliland
Supervisors Alicia Davis, Jude Robinson
Funding CoSS Fee Waiver and Moyes Foundation (Stipend)
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026
Name NOVATUS TESHA
Degree PhD
Title Cost-effectiveness of Cervical Cancer HPV DNA Self-sampling Screening in Low Resource Setting
Supervisors Claudia Geue, Eleanor Grieve, Cindy Gray
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name CELESTE WILLIAMS
Degree PhD
Title Ethical Parenthood: An exploration of French and British non-binary people’s reproductive decisions and their ethical dimensions
Supervisors Lucy Pickering, Kristina Saunders
Funding College of Social Sciences
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026
Name MOHAMMED IBRAHIM A FAKEEH
Degree PhD
Title Modifiable Factors Susceptible to Health Promotion (Smoking; obesity), Biomarkers of Health, and Lifestyle Change; Health Education Program
Supervisors Donald Lyall, Sharon Greenwood, Jordan Canning
Start year 2024
Finish year 2027
Name CHUQIAO LIU
Degree PhD
Title TBC
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Francesca Stella
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027
Name LAZAARO MUJUMBUSI
Degree PhD
Title TBC
Supervisors Poppy Lamberton, Lucy Pickering
Funding ERC
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027
Name RUT ROSINA RIWU
Degree PhD
Title Use of Modern Conceptive Methods in Indonesia
Supervisors Fred Ho, Sharon Greenwood, Cindy Gray
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027
Name XU WANG
Degree PhD
Title Stay-at-home fathers: An Intersectional Exploration of Changing Family Relationships in Contemporary China
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Marta Moskal
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027
Name ANTON SODERQVIST
Degree PhD
Title Novel energy harvesting to promote active travel
Supervisors Gioia Falcone, Graeme Hunt, Cindy Gray, Kevin Worrall
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2027
Completed students (2013 onwards) with links to e-versions of theses
Name AMANDA PTOLOMEY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
Disabled girls: doing, being, becoming
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 CATHERINE SWEDBERG
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
An intersectoral approach to enhance surveillance and guide rabies control and elimination programs
Name MARTIN ANDERSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Recovery, relationships and identity: a mixed methods process evaluation of the formation of a therapeutic community
Name KATHRYN MACHRAY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Food insecurity among single men in Scotland: a qualitative investigation
Name SUZAN TRIENEKENS
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Water is life: schistosoma mansoni (re) infection risk and water contact behaviour among school-aged children in a persistent high endemicity area
Name PHALLON BLESSING MWABA
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Intervening on hypertension in Zambia: development of a culturally sensitized lifestyle programme to reduce disease incidence in urban areas
Name ANTHONY MUCHAI MANYARA
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Understanding the aetiology of type 2 diabetes and the perceptions of diabetes risk in Nairobi, Kenya
Name ROBIN IRELAND
Degree PhD
Year of award 2021
Commercial determinants of health in sport. The example of the English Premier League
Name LAUREN WHITE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2020
Understanding the policy and public debate surrounding the regulation of online advertising of high in fat, sugar and salt food and beverages to children
Name KAREN YOUNG
Degree PhD
Year of award 2020
Where is the person in personalisation? Experiences of people with learning disabilities and their families in Glasgow
Name SHEELA TRIPATHEE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Together through thick and thin: Cohabiting partners’ reciprocal influence during men’s attempts to change their dietary practices and physical activity to lose weight and maintain weight loss
Name TIAGO CARLOS ZORTEA
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Attachment as a psychological diathesis for suicide risk
Name CLAIRE MCCALLUM
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Evaluating the impact of physical activity apps and wearables: an interdisciplinary investigation of research designs and methods
Name ANNA BEESLEY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
'They don't yet know that life is going to be hell': Tracing distress through the UK asylum process
Name IAIN SMITH
Degree MD
Year of award 2018
Doctoring in a whisky-injured nation: The medical response to the "alcohol question" in Scotland, 1855-1925
Name BERNARD MCNALLY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
After the financial crash of 2008, how will the UK’s welfare to work policies affect the attitude of Scottish private sector employers towards hiring jobless people who have been disabled by mental illness?
Name JENNY SPEIRS
Degree MPhil(R)
Year of award 2017
How do LGBTQ+ youth build liveable lives?
Name CAITLIN GORMLEY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
Prison, power, and people with learning disabilities: the complexities of curtailed lives
Name SHARON BYRNE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
The development and evaluation of a mindfulness-based intervention for incarcerated young men
Name KAINDE MANJI
Degree: PhD
Year of award 2017
Conditionality, surveillance, and citizenship: examining the impacts of the 2010–2015 Coalition Government’s welfare reform program on disabled people living in Scotland
Name MARK GALLAGHER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
From mental patient to service user: deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of the Mental Health Service User Movement in Scotland, 1971–2006
Name AMAL ELRAMLI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
Effectiveness of community based physical activity on step count and sedentary behaviour in people with rheumatoid arthritis within the first five years of diagnosis
Name BREANNON BABBEL
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Tackling health inequalities in primary care: an exploration of GPs’ experience at the frontline
Name ANNA CUNNINGHAM
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Volunteering for the Commonwealth Games: what can realist synthesis contribute to health policy making?
Name ZARA KOHNER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Shadows of militarism: an ethnography of trauma and resistance among soldiers and veterans in post-9/11 USA
Name DEBORAH MORRISON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Supporting self-management: development and evaluation of a digital resource for adults with asthma
Name MAUREEN KIDD
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
"Expanding Horizons": investigating the Glasgow 2014 legacy for young people in the East End of Glasgow
Name NICK SHARRER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
The impact of social housing on health in Glasgow and Baltimore, 1930-1980
Name CRAIG DONNACHIE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Men's experiences of receiving objective feedback on physical activity and other indicators of health risk, within the context of a gender-sensitised weight loss intervention
Name HILARY STEWART
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Towards a Bourdieusian analysis of the disabled body and practice: embodying negative symbolic capitals and the uneasy experience of hysteresis
Name STEVE ROLFE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Assessing the impacts of community participation policy and practice in Scotland and England
Name SARAH ANNESLEY
Degree PhD (University of Stirling)
Year of award 2015
A qualitative study of policy and action: How the Scottish Government has implemented self-management support for people with long-term conditions
Name RICHARD BRUNNER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2015
Surviving, thriving and being outside: applying the capabilities approach to reconceptualise the social justice experiences of people with mental distress
Name MARTHA KIRBY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2015
Too much of a good thing? Weight management, obesity, and the healthy body in Britain, 1950–1995
Name KENNETH MACAULAY
Degree MD
Year of award 2015
Birth control knowledge: Scotland, 1900–1975
Name HEATHER WARDLE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2015
New applications of expansive empirical sociology: understanding the relationship between gambling behaviour, social environment and risk
Name SARA DENVER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Experiences of developing cancer and palliative care services in one community in North West England 1976-2000: an oral history and documentary reconstruction
Name AIZAN AMIN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Disability and gender in the global South: the lived experiences of disabled women in Malaysia
Name SEUMAS BATES
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
"Just another hurricane": the lived experience of everyday life in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill
Name HAZEL MORRISON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Unearthing the "clinical encounter": Gartnavel Mental Hospital, 1921-1932. Exploring the intersection of scientific and social discourses which negotiated the boundaries of psychiatric diagnoses
Name PHILIPPA WISEMAN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Reconciling the "Private" and "Public": disabled young people’s experiences of everyday embodied citizenship
Name ALEXANDER POLLOCK
Degree MD
Year of award 2014
From dyspepsia to Helicobacter: a history of peptic ulcer disease
Name KIM ROSS
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
The locational history of Scotland's district lunatic asylums, 1857-1913
Name SALLY BOA
Degree PhD (University of Stirling)
Year of award 2013
The development and evaluation of a Goal setting and Action Planning framework for use in Palliative Care (G-AP PC)
Name FILIPPO TREVISAN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2013
Connected citizens or digital isolation? Online disability activism in times of crisis