Centre for Public Health Students
Current PhD Students in the Centre for Public Health:
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
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 Sarah Bell: Physical activity and emotional wellbeing in young people
Dr Heide Busse: Youth mentoring: factors influencing effectiveness of youth mentoring programmes and assessment of outcomes
Dr Charlotte Chamberlain: The impact of the NHS reorganisation on access to high cost cancer pharmaceuticals
Dr Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde: Approaching evaluations of public health interventions to tackle obesity from a complex systems perspective
Dr Michael Daly: Improving Preconception Health: Intervention development to target multiple modifiable risk factors for multiple adverse perinatal outcomes
Dr Kaiseree Dias: Designing an intervention to increase physical activity using epidemiology, systematic review and qualitative methods
Dr Harriet Fisher: Factors Influencing the Uptake of the HPV Vaccination Programme
Dr Suzi Gage: Examining the relationship between cannabis use, psychosis and depression in ALSPAC
Dr Sarah Harding: Environmental associations with physical activity in children and adolescence
Paige Hulls: Cluster randomised trial workplace intervention to improve cardiovascular health of professionals in male-dominated industries: Design and pilot in the construction industry
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
Dr Abi Lyndon: Opioid addiction: risks from concurrent poly-substance abuse
Dr Kyle Macdonald Wallis: The influence of social networks on physical activity in 10-11 year old children
Dr Gemma Morgan: Developing and evaluating a physical activity intervention to prevent disability in older people: a feasibility study and pilot RCT
Dr Alex Nicholson: Hand hygiene in primary schools; evaluating the effects of an educational intervention
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
Dr Michelle Taylor: Role of genes involved in synaptic plasticity in schizophrenia
Dr Laura Tinner: Multiple risk behaviour and health inequalities in young adulthood
Dr David Troy: Determining the efficiacy of choice architecture interventions that can reduce population alcohol consumption
Dr Lizzy Winstone: Social media use and adolescent mental health and well-being