CRIPACC DHRes student profiles

Current students

CRIPACC currently supports the following part-time DHRes students.

Student	Doctorate in Health Research (DHRes) title	Supervisors
Claire Carter	Infant Sleep, SIDS and the mother-infant dyad: What do health care practitioners know and practice, and what is the mothers’ experience?	Professor Kathryn Almack Dr Annabel Jay
Carl Clare	The lived experience of the person diagnosed with Primary Hypoadrenalism (Addison's disease)	Dr Gillian Craig Dr Cheryl Holman
Udesha Davids	Monitoring the performance of skeletal axial and appendicular plain film reporting radiographers in clinical practice	Dr Aarthi Ramlaul Professor Richard Price
SallyAnne Doyle-Caddick	GP screening to identify high functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder	Professor Brian Littlechild Dr Shivani Sharma Dr Chaz Simpson
Caroline Ashton	Engaging family carers in acute care through the journey of delirium in dementia	Professor Claire Goodman Dr Jenni Lynch
Lynne Gordon	The lived experiences of men with early-stage prostate cancer when receiving information related to a course of radiotherapy in the UK	Dr Angela Dickinson Professor Wendy Wills
Radica Hardyal	An exploration of the experiences of the sick woman during childbirth and the puerperium	Professor Kathryn Almack Dr Rosemary Godbold
Helen Harte	Waiting for a Diagnosis: Women's Experiences of Living with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome	Professor Kathryn Almack Dr Karen Beeton
Catherine Honnah	Female Genital Mutilation: A Social and Cultural norm prevalent among girls and women in Sierra Leone, West Africa. How does Health Visitors in the United Kingdom, work with families to protect children and young people from harm	Professor Shula Ramon Dr Michele O'Grady
Anne Hunt	Learning from the Survivors of Sepsis	Professor Julia Jones Dr Kate Young
Sarah Jardine	Organisational culture and the manual handling behaviour of front-line ambulance staff	Professor Julia Williams Dr Charles Simpson
Caroline Kelly	Middle-aged women's experience of receiving a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome in adulthood: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	Professor Shula Ramon Dr Shivani Sharma
Jeffrey Lucas	Developing a tool to assess Group B Streptococcus awareness in pregnancy	Dr Daksha Trivedi Dr Michaela Cottee Dr Chaz Simpson
Paul Maloret	Being a mental health inpatient: The experiences of adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions, a phenomenological study	Dr Tricia Scott Dr Shivani Sharma
Sophia Mavrommatis	Patient’s experience of recovery following primary elective total knee replacement surgery	Dr Angela Dickinson Dr Jenni Lynch
Godfrey Muchena	Accessing mental health services for the first time: the black African and Caribbean experience	Professor Shula Ramon Dr Pieter Nel
Vijaya Rajoo-Naidu	Supervision of practice-based assessment for advanced emergency nurse practitioner	Dr Denise Knight Professor Karen Beeton
Stella Roberts	Changes to midwifery care in light of better births	Professor Kathyrn Almack Dr Laura Abbott
Dawn Royall	Patient accounts of pressure ulcer prevention following fractured neck of femur	Dr Charles Simpson Professor Hilary Thomas
Jane Say	Caring for those with Parkinson’s: The Impact of Social Networks on the Caring Role	Dr Angela Dickinson Dr Charles Simpson
Meera Sharma	Investigating Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) patients perception on patient care within medical imaging (UK)	Dr Rosemary Godbold Professor Richard Price
Clare Toon	Is it just me, or am I lonely? The experiences of health and loneliness in retired older adults	Dr Charles Simpson Dr Zoe Aslanpour
Sandra Turner	Provision of healthcare services for Bronchiectasis: the views of patients and healthcare professionals	Dr Charles Simpson Professor Julia Jones

Case studies

Dr Cathy Hamilton: What are Midwives Practices during the Second Stage of Labour?: A qualitative Study

Graduated, supervised by Professor Sally Kendall and Professor Fiona Brooks

“As a midwifery lecturer I really wanted my research to be grounded in practice rather than education. The professional doctorate offered me the opportunity to do this as well as guiding me in the research process. It takes a ‘step by step’ approach which is extremely helpful when trying to balance the demands of studying for a doctorate whilst also working full time. I really value the individual support offered by the academic team and the peer support from fellow students as we share our work and experiences. This approach helps me to stay focused on the project and keeps me on track: particularly valuable when undertaking such a long period of study over a number of years.”

Clare Toon: Is it just me, or am I lonely? The experiences of health and loneliness in retired older adults

Current student, supervised by Dr Charles Simpson and Dr Zoe Aslanpour

“Having successfully completed an MSc in Evidence-based Healthcare, the DHRes offered a welcome alternative approach to the traditional PhD route for my doctoral studies. Most appealing has been the cohort approach, in particular the residential sessions, which provide an invaluable opportunity to learn alongside and share experiences both with my own year group, and those following and ahead of me. These sessions have allowed me to immerse myself in all aspects of the research process and enabled me to experiment with and develop my ideas and writing style within a “safe” environment, surrounded by likeminded individuals.

The support offered by and shared between both my fellow students and academic tutors and supervisors has been reassuring throughout and given me the confidence and freedom to embrace the challenges posed by my doctoral journey. Furthermore, the flexibility and the structure of the DHRes programme fit well with and compliment my full-time job and personal commitments. Despite the challenges, the high points have by far outweighed the lows and I would highly recommend the programme to anyone considering doctoral study.”