Current postgraduate research

Rachel is a Palliative Medicine Doctor undertaking a PhD exploring how primary care clinicians should approach decisions regarding hospital admission for frail, elderly patients. She is supervised by Jonathan Ives in the Centre and Alyson Huntley and Matthew Booker in the Centre for Academic Primary Care.

Max's PhD focuses on building machine learning algorithms to measure human trust in automation and assist appropriate trust calibration. Max is supervised by Jonathan Ives and Jonathan Rossiter from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

Matimba is undertaking a PhD exploring the ethical and regulatory complexity of what the first-in-human nanoswarm cancer clinical trials should look like through the SWARM project study (SWARM – Small robots With collective behaviour as AI-driven cancer therapies; building Regulations for future nanoMedicines). Matimba is supervised by Sabine Hauert (Swarm Engineering) and Jonathan Ives (Centre for Ethics in Medicine). Matimba is also on the research team of the Being Black and Brown in Bioethics (BBBB) study - a qualitative study into the experiences of postgraduate researchers in different racial groups—which is supported by generous funding from the Institute of Medical Ethics.

Lydia graduated as a medical doctor and worked as a general practitioner for ten years before deciding to go into teaching in medical school. Lydia's PhD project is to develop an educational framework for informed consent in clinical practice in Malaysia. Lydia's supervisors are Prof Jonathan Ives and Dr Jane Williams.

Saba's project focuses on Optimising understanding for informed consent: evaluation of a measure of participatory informed consent for application to trials research. She is researching the effectiveness of tools used to measure informed consent for research trials. Saba is supervised by Julia Wade and Giles Birchley.