Doctoral students

Doctoral students

PhD and MD opportunities in General Practice and Primary Care

C‌urrent students

Name ALESSIO ALBANESE
Degree PhD
Title Exploring the effects of traumatic experiences and post-migration life difficulties on the mental health and somatic symptoms of asylum seekers and refugees living in Scotland
Supervisor Kate O'Donnell, Barbara Nicholl, Sara Macdonald
Funding Private benefactor/MVLS
Start year 2018
Intended finish year 2022

Name HANAN ALMAJED
Degree PhD
Title Breast cancer in the population Of Kuwait
Supervisors Sara Macdonald, Barbara Nicholl, Katie Robb
Funding Civil Service Commission of Kuwait
Start year 2016
Intended finish year 2022

Name RONG XING
Degree PhD
Title Humour style plays a mediating effect between emotional intelligence and well-being in international students
Supervisors Andrea Williamson, Jill Morrison, Chris Williams
Funding Self-funding
Start year 2017
Intended finish year 2022

Name ANNA BLACK
Degree PhD
Title 
Preventive health care for migrant populations
Supervisors Kate O'Donnell, Nicola Burns, Frances Mair
Funding Departmental
Start year 
2012
Intended finish year 
2022

Name AGHNAA GAYATRI
Degree PhD
Title Development of a context-based diabetes management model in Indonesia
Supervisors Barbara Nicholl, Stewart Mercer, Sara Macdonald
Funding Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia
Start year 2016
Intended finish year 2022

Name DUNCAN MCNAB
Degree PhD
Title An exploratory study of the application of Resilience Engineering principles and methods to improving the safety of test results handling systems within primary care
Supervisors Jill Morrison, Paul Bowie, Alistair Ross
Funding NHS Education
Start year 2015
Intended finish year 2022

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 2022

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 2022

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 2022

Name MICHAEL SULLIVAN
Degree PhD
Title Interrogating disease clusters, multimorbidity and adverse outcomes in chronic kidney disease
Supervisors Patrick Mark, Frances Mair, Bhautesh Jani, Alex McConnachie
Funding MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2022

Name SIMIN WU
Degree PhD
Title Implications of chronic pain as a comorbidity with a focus on cardiometabolic disease
Supervisors Barbara Nicholl, Frances Mair, Sara Macdonald
Funding China Scholarship Council
Start year 2018
Intended finish year 2022

Name FERGUS CHADWICK
Degree PhD
Title Heterogeneous and latent effort modelling in opportunistically collected wildlife and health data 
Supervisors Jason Matthiopoulos, Dirk Husmeier, Frances Mair, Daniel Haydon
Funding EPSRC
Start year 2018 
Intended finish year 2022

Name PETER HANLON
Degree PhD
Title Understanding prevalence and impact of frailty in chronic illness and implications for clinical management
Supervisors Frances Mair, David McAllister, Jim Lewsey
Funding Medical Research Council (Clinical Research Training Fellowship)
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2022

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 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

Completed students (2018 onwards) with links to e-versions of theses

ABDULAZIZ ALHENAIDI 
Degree
PhD
Year of award
2021
Identifying factors influencing the recruitment and retention of primary care doctors in Kuwait

ANNABEL FARNOOD
Degree
PhD
Year of award
2021
The effects of online self-diagnosis and health information seeking on the patient-healthcare professional relationship

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

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