Centre for Public Health Students
PhD students are an integral part of the Centre for Public Health’s vibrant research community. Our students come from diverse academic, professional and international backgrounds, and contribute new knowledge and perspectives to address public health challenges. At the Centre, they are supported by expert supervision and a collaborative research environment.
Our current PhD Students
- Gemma WarrenIntersectional mental health inequalities among young people with a chronic illness or disability (GW4 PhD)
- Georgia GroganEvaluating systems change to support better pathways into adulthood for vulnerable young people: a mixed methods study
- Yunxuan (Vera) JiaExploring Music as an Intervention Tool for Adolescents’ Emotional Health and Wellbeing.
- Winnifred OkoroWhat are the biological mechanisms underlying smoking, smoking cessation and mental health: a triangulation approach.
- Xingmei (May) ZhangIncreasing access to extracurricular physical activities among children and adolescents: understanding inequalities in provision and participation.
- Nick MorrisA mixed method evaluation of active travel policies and interventions to inform public policy development.
- Andrew MahonThe mental health of young adults attending colleges of further education: Identifying strategies for improvement and support via physical activity.
- Leticia MarcaClimate change and local public health: how are local climate change strategies developed and are they effective?
- Cat HoltExploring and responding to food insecurity in preschool children in Somerset: systematic review, quantitative or qualitative studies and intervention pilot.
- Amy TurnerAnalysis of food provision, consumption and waste in early years settings in England to inform early years food policy - NIHR SPHR PhD
- Ciara ThomasAn examination of risk factors for poor mental health and mental health inequalities among young women and exploration of possible interventions in work and further educational settings - NIHR SPHR PhD
- Dr Tom DaviesUsing novel synthesis methods to identify and optimise components for public mental health interventions - NIHR SPHR PhD.
- Cat Papastravou BrooksUnderstanding the Impact of Neighbourhood Violence as a Mental Health Determinant.
Our previous PhD Students
Dr Joanna McLaughlin: Mixed methods investigation of the public health impact of pre-surgical health optimisation interventions in elective arthroplasty (2024)
Giselle Dass: Identification and provision of support for children and adolescents exposed to domestic violence: Linking the school and healthcare response in Sri Lanka (2024)
Claire Kelly: Understanding why parents may choose to withdraw their child from relationship and sex education: a mixed-methods study to explore individual and contextual factors related to withdrawal (2024)
Dr Vicky Carlisle: Identifying the facilitators and barriers of successful opioid substitution treatment (2022)
Dr Kaiseree Dias: Designing an intervention to increase physical activity using epidemiology, systematic review and qualitative methods (2022)
Dr Michael Daly: Improving Preconception Health: Intervention development to target multiple modifiable risk factors for multiple adverse perinatal outcomes (2023)
Paige Hulls: Cluster randomised trial workplace intervention to improve cardiovascular health of professionals in male-dominated industries: Design and pilot in the construction industry (2022)
Dr Lizzy Winstone: Social media use and adolescent mental health and well-being (2022)
Dr Alice Porter: What exactly are 'me' sized meals for 1 to 5 year olds? Developing age-and-sex specific meal size guidance for preschoolers (2022)
Dr Laura Tinner: Multiple risk behaviour and health inequalities in young adulthood (2020)
Dr Heide Busse: Youth mentoring: factors influencing effectiveness of youth mentoring programmes and assessment of outcomes (2019)
Dr David Troy: Determining the efficiacy of choice architecture interventions that can reduce population alcohol consumption (2018)
Dr Abi Lyndon: Opioid addiction: risks from concurrent poly-substance abuse (2017)
Dr Sarah Bell: Physical activity and emotional wellbeing in young people (2016)
Dr Michelle Taylor: Role of genes involved in synaptic plasticity in schizophrenia (2016)
Dr Gemma Morgan: Developing and evaluating a physical activity intervention to prevent disability in older people: a feasibility study and pilot RCT (2016)
Dr Sarah Harding: Environmental associations with physical activity in children and adolescence (2016)
Dr Harriet Fisher: Factors Influencing the Uptake of the HPV Vaccination Programme (2015)
Dr Suzi Gage: Examining the relationship between cannabis use, psychosis and depression in ALSPAC (2015)
Dr Jo Crichton: Peer-led approach to chlamydia screening (2015)
Dr Alex Nicholson: Hand hygiene in primary schools; evaluating the effects of an educational intervention (2015)
Dr Charlotte Chamberlain: The impact of the NHS reorganisation on access to high cost cancer pharmaceuticals (2015)
Dr Kyle Macdonald Wallis: The influence of social networks on physical activity in 10-11 year old children (2014)