Current research students and projects

Christine Atkins (PhD)

• A study of newly qualified social workers, health visitors and police officers ability to work together in the team around the child in order to improve the effectiveness of interprofessional working.
• Supervisors: Dr Alison Twycross; Dr Eleni Hatzidimitriadou

Laura Cole (PhD)

• Exploring family relationships when people with dementia need intimate care.
• Supervisors: Dr Eleni Hatzidimitriadou; Professor Vari Drennan

Alessandro Corezzola (PhD)

• Gene therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
• Supervisors: Professor Andy Jewell; Karen Whiting (Kingston University); Ruth Pettengell (St George's, University of London); Amrit Nathwani (University College London)

Sheila Donovan (PhD)

• A study to develop a patient-centred tool for professionals to assess the quality of care in the context of an integrated care pathway for falls.
• Supervisors: Professor Ruth Harris; Professor Fiona Ross

Catherine Gamble (PhD)

• A feasibility study to develop and test the acceptability and validity of a role inventory tool for Early Intervention Family Peer Support Workers
• Supervisors: Professor Ruth Harris; Professor Fiona Ross; Dr Stephen Gillard (St George's, University of London)

Mirella Genziani (PhD)

• Black detainees and the use of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act: using detainee police and professional discourse to improve practice.
• Supervisors: Professor Mary Chambers; Dr Stephen Gillard (St George's, University of London)

Elizabeth Haidar (MPhil)

• A study of patient adherence in antibiotic clinical trials and its relationship to bacterial resistance and socioeconomic status.
• Supervisors: Professor Vari Drennan; Professor Ruth Harris

Ayfer Kahraman (PhD)

• Exploring barriers and enablers to self-management after stroke.
• Supervisors: Professor Ruth Harris; Professor Andy Jewell; Dr Fiona Jones; Professor George Ellison

Averil Kathan (PhD)

• An analysis and comparison of child protection practice between South African trained social workers and UK trained social workers practising in the UK.
• Supervisors: Mr Nigel Hall; Professor Ray Jones

Sian Koskela (MSc by Research)

• Examining the experiences of women with mental health problems as victims of crime; does the context in which the crime occurred influence the subsequent experience and the impact on women with mental health problems?
• Supervisor: Professor Vari Drennan

Maria Koulopoulou (MSc by Research)

• Inspiratory muscle training in interstitial lung disease (IMT in ILD).
• Supervisors: Professor Mike Hurley; Dr Dimitra Nikoletou

Farouk Meklat (PhD)

• Generation of specific antibodies against MHS-Peptide complex for use to predict tumor specificity of a tumor vaccine.
• Supervisors: Professor Andy Jewell; Lucy Jones (Kingston University)

Abdulfatah Onifade (PhD)

• Are herbal remedies used to treat HIV infection in Nigeria effective?
• Supervisors: Professor Andy Jewell; Adekunle B Okesina (Osun State University, Nigeria)

Carla Pereira (PhD)

• Rehabilitation after stroke: a study to develop a new active goal-setting model for Portuguese context.
• Supervisors: Dr Fiona Jones; Professor Ann Mackenzie; Dr Nan Greenwood

Alexei Sammut (PhD)

• The effect of goal-setting and planning (GAP) intervention on well-being in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
• Supervisors: Dr Arthur Brennan; Professor Mary Chambers; Josianne Scerri (University of Malta)

Raymond Smith (PhD)

• Volunteer mentoring schemes for carers: the impact on volunteer mentors and on dementia carers.
• Supervisors: Professor Vari Drennan; Dr Nan Greenwood

Rachel Summers (PhD)

• The effect of goal-setting and planning (GAP) intervention on well-being in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
• Supervisors: Professor Andy Jewell; Dr Dimitra Nikoletou; Dr Rachel Garrod; Andrew Macleod (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Kaleem Ullah (PhD)

• An evaluation of the role of Cupping Therapy in health promotion; exploring issues of professionalism and professionalisation in relation to Cupping Therapy.
• Supervisors: Professor Andy Jewell; Dr Dimitra Nikoletou; Dr Rachel Garrod; Ahmed Younis; Dr Cheryl Whiting, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences

Portia Woodman (PhD)

• A critical study of the barriers to participation after stroke.
• Supervisors: Dr Fiona Jones; Professor Ann Mackenzie; Dr Afsane Riazi (Royal Holloway, University of London)