Centre for Public Health Students
Our current PhD Students:
Gemma Warren: Intersectional mental health inequalities among young people with a chronic illness or disability (GW4 PhD)
Georgia Grogan: Evaluating systems change to support better pathways into adulthood for vulnerable young people: a mixed methods study
Yunxuan (Vera) Jia: Exploring Music as an Intervention Tool for Adolescents’ Emotional Health and Wellbeing.
Winnifred Okoro: What are the biological mechanisms underlying smoking, smoking cessation and mental health: a triangulation approach.
Xingmei (May) Zhang: 'Increasing access to extracurricular physical activities among children and adolescents: understanding inequalities in provision and participation.
Cat Papastravou Brooks: Understanding the Impact of Neighbourhood Violence as a Mental Health Determinant.
Leticia Marca: Climate change and local public health: how are local climate change strategies developed and are they effective?
Dr Thomas Davies: Using novel synthesis methods to identify and optimise components for public mental health interventions - NIHR SPHR PhD.
Cat Holt: Exploring and responding to food insecurity in preschool children in Somerset: systematic review, quantitative or qualitative studies and intervention pilot.
Andrew Mahon: The mental health of young adults attending colleges of further education: Identifying strategies for improvement and support via physical activity.
Nick Morris: A mixed method evaluation of active travel policies and interventions to inform public policy development.
Ciara Thomas: An 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
Amy Turner: Analysis of food provision, consumption and waste in early years settings in England to inform early years food policy - NIHR SPHR PhD
Previous PhD Students in the Centre for Public Health:
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)