Supervisor Specialties

Our postgraduate research programmes offer the possibility to work with and be supervised by a range of academics, who have international reputations and outstanding publications in their areas of expertise.

Clinical and Health Psychology

The expertise of our academics in Clinical and Health Psychology cover the whole of the lifespan, focusing on childhood to adult and older adult mental health and emotional wellbeing as well as the psychological impact of chronic physical ill health. Our research involves national and international collaborations, with many projects involving NHS partnerships.

Supervisor Specialties:

Research Interests

Emily Newman
  • Online offending and viewing child sexual abuse images.
  • Media portrayal of relationships and its influence on intimate relationships and attitudes to partner violence.
Fay Huntley
  • Structured risk assessment; the use of HCR-20; how formulation can be helpful in supporting people.
  • Supporting the transitions between services to reduce risk.
  • Supporting those in forensic settings detained as a result of psychosis and offending.
Ingrid Obsuth
  • School exclusion, delinquency, violence, victimisation, and their links with trauma, PTSD, and complex PTSD.
  • Attachment theory and developmental criminology. 
Jessica Hafetz
  • Children and families' experience family court.
  • Separation and divorce.
  • Making family court more child-centered.
Jo Williams
  • Psychological risk factors for childhood animal cruelty.
  • Links between animal cruelty and human-directed violence and abuse.
Karen Goodall
  • Police and prison service.
  • Police perceptions of trauma-informed working.
  • Trauma-informed interviewing for vulnerable witnesses.
  • Assessment of intervention to improve police-public interactions.
Suzanne O'Rourke
  • Cognitive contributions to offending behaviour and risk.
  • Relevance of pre-natal alcohol exposure (PAE) or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) to involvement with criminal justice.
  • Prevalence of FASD in these services, risk assessment and how FASD might increase risk of contact with criminal justice. 

Research Interests

Zsofia Garai-Takacs
  • Physiological measures of cognitive processes, emotion regulation, mindfulness and spirituality.
Abigail Pickard
  • Eating behaviours in children and young people.
  • Cognitive mechanisms underpinning food rejection.
  • Eating behaviours of young children that are associated with adiposity risk.
  • The development of persistent fussy eating in childhood
Caroline Brett
  • Intersection between health psychology and positive psychology.
  • Determinants of wellbeing (subjective, eudaimonic, or psychological).
  • Traits, characteristics, and processes that help maintain wellbeing in the face of difficulties; constructs such as personality, resilience, and sense of coherence.
  • Relationship between individual differences (such as personality) and all aspects of health.
  • Behaviour change interventions and techniques.
Ewelina Rydzewska-Fazekas
  • Health needs/inequalities experienced by autistic people with/without co-occurring intellectual disabilities (eg. mortality, physical or mental health conditions, socioeconomic variables, risk behaviours, healthy ageing, barriers to healthcare access).
  • Systematic review/meta-analyses, secondary data analysis, big data, data linkage and qualitative approaches.
Emily Newman
  • Body image and disordered eating; consuming social media content; nature of online content.
Emily Pacheco
  • Psychological and social dimensions of health.
  • Response of individuals and communities to adversity and stress.
  • Psychosocial, behavioural, and contextual factors that shape health outcomes.
  • How evidence-based psychological approaches can support resilience, adaptation, and recovery across diverse populations.
  • Health inequalities, trauma, and global health challenges.
Ingrid Obsuth
  • Adolescent mental health across the life-span.
  • ADHD, emotion regulation, trauma, and staff wellbeing in education and children’s services.
  • Digital health; app development; intervention evaluation.
Jessica Hafetz
  • Prevention of injuries and illness in children and adolescents.
  • Influence of parent-child interactions on health, wellness and injury outcomes for children and young people.
Jo Williams
  • Impact of physical health conditions, including injuries, on children's development.
  • Children's concepts of health and illness.
  • Development of children's knowledge of specific illnesses with age and experience.
  • Educational interventions relating to health literacy in children and adolescents.
Karri Gillespie-Smith
  • Mechanisms and processes influencing mental health outcomes (eating disorders, depression, anxiety etc) in Autistic groups and groups with Intellectual Disabilities.
  • Psychosocial aspects including relationships, trauma, self regulation, intersectionality and coping strategies.
  • Autistic people who use alternative communication (historically referred to as non-speaking).
  • Trans/Non-binary Autistic people. 
Leonor Rodriguez-Estrada
  • Impact of chronic illness on children, adolescents and families.
  • Rare illnesses such as hemophilia, and also cancer.
  • Measuring wellbeing in children with chronic illness.
  • Designing and evaluating interventions; participatory, arts-based and technology-based research.
Maria Gardani
  • Sleep and insomnia as public health concerns.
  • Exploring the link between sleep and physical health.
  • Investigating lifestyle factors to improve sleep and wellbeing.
Monica Truelove-Hill
  • Contributors towards, outcomes of, and protective factors against parental stress and burnout
Monja Knoll
  • Wellbeing, emotional intelligence, burnout and mental health outcomes in residential care and mental health services
  • Mental health, communication skills and emotional intelligence in parents including foster parents and kinship carers
Paul Graham Morris
  • Wellbeing benefits of nature; gardening, walking in nature or engaging with wildlife.
  • Preventative health approaches to reduce risk of distress or mental health difficulties.
  • How differing eco-emotions relate to variables such as environmental behaviour or values.
  • Engagement with psychological services; benefits and barriers to public engagement with existing psychology services; public views on reducing barriers to engagement.
  • Behaviour changes and improvements in valued living and wellbeing.

Research Interests

Zsofia Garai-Takacs
  • Mindfulness induction and emotion induction experiments.
  • Conducting experiments on spirituality.
  • Conducting lab- and school-based experiments.
  • Meta-analyses.
Elizabeth Kirkham
  • Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental illness and early life stress.
  • Neurocognitive mechanisms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • Task-based measures (e.g. responding to emotional facial expressions, stop-signal task); neuroimaging measures; questionnaire-based measures.
Emily Pacheco
  • Understanding human social cognition, identity, and behaviour.
  • Applying experimental methods to real-world questions, especially in relation to stress, adaptation, and decision-making under uncertainty.
  • Translation of experimental findings into practical applications, particularly within disaster, health, and global settings.
Ingrid Obsuth
  • Adolescent emotion regulation.
  • Physiological measures such as heart rate, cortisol, and skin conductance to examine stress reactivity, recovery, and attachment processes. 
Jessica Hafetz
  • Transportation psychology. Increasing the safety of the transportation system safer for children and young people.
  • Young drivers and child passenger safety.
Karen Goodall
  • Experimental studies relating to mindfulness-interventions, emotional experience and adult attachment.
  • Ecological momentary assessment studies involving attachment security priming and brief mindfulness interventions.
Monja Knoll
  • Acoustic speech analysis and methods development in relation to social interactions and attachment across the lifespan
  • Exploration of infant- and child-directed speech in a variety of different contexts (parental, residential care, schools) and its impact on socioemotional and linguistic development
  • Exploration of pet-directed speech and its relation to owner/animal wellbeing
Tahcita Medrado Mizael
  • Understanding and reducing prejudice, such as race/ethnic, gender stereotypes, and LGBTphobia.
  • Behaviour analysis; Relational Frame Theory (RFT). 

Research Interests

Zsofia Garai-Takacs
  • Development of self-regulation: emotion regulation, executive function skills and broader cognitive skills.
  • Neurodivergence, especially ADHD.
  • Cross-temporal meta-analysis assessing temporal changes in children's behaviours.
  • Subclinical levels of behavioral and emotional problems.
Abigail Pickard
  • Cognitive development.
  • Neurodevelopmental conditions.
Alice Gritti
  • Gender Identity and Intersectionality.
  • Mental health and Psychosocial support for refugee children.
Angus MacBeth
  • Intergenerational Mental Health; perinatal mental health, infant mental health.
  • Developmental Psychopathology; attachment; mentalization and metacognition.
  • Longitudinal designs; interventions; data linkage.
Ewelina Rydzewska-Fazekas
  • Lifecourse transitions for autistic people with/without co-occurring intellectual disabilities.
  • Challenges and inequalities associated with lifecourse transitions (e.g., transition to adulthood, transition to older age, daily transitions between different everyday life contexts etc.).
Elizabeth Kirkham
  • Impact of early life stress on the development of the brain; relation to mental illness.
  • How neurodivergence, especially autism, interacts with mental illness.
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • Developmental research regarding (young) adult populations.
  • Delphi studies; questionnaire-based research; neuroimaging; task-based experimental paradigms.
Emily Pacheco
  • Impact of adversity, displacement, and sociocultural change on individual growth, adaptation, and meaning making.
  • Development of identity; relating to emotional, cognitive, and social processes.
  • Cultural, environmental, and relational influences on identity.
  • Integrating developmental theory with applied research and context-sensitive approach.
  • Resilience, belonging, and the long-term impacts of early life experiences. 
Fay Huntley
  • Parenting factors and their prospective associations with child outcomes.
  • Parental mental health/personality difficulties.
Ingrid Obsuth
  • How attachment and key social contexts shape development from childhood through adolescence.
  • Teacher–student relationships, experiences of victimisation and abuse, care experience, and patterns of emotion regulation.
  • Disorganised attachment.
  • Longitudinal studies; app development.
  • Relationships/attachment to AI from childhood to young adulthood.
  • Relationships/attachment to AI in clinical populations.
Jamie Kennedy-Turner
  • Attachment, family dynamics, and child and adolescent mental health, especially youth self-harm and suicidality, family communication, and parenting behaviours.
  • Attachment and mentalization theories.
  • Quantitative and qualitative analyses; mediation/moderation; path analysis. 
Jessica Hafetz
  • Separation and divorce among co-parents with children.
  • Relational aggression as a tool to harm relationships between parents and children.
Jo Williams
  • Typical and neurodivergent development (including autism, ADHD, and dyslexia).
  • Child and adolescent mental health.
  • Human-animal interactions (HAI); effects of pets on child development and health; animal-assisted interventions for mental health; animal cruelty.
Karen Goodall
  • Adverse childhood experiences/trauma; relationship to mental health outcomes, emotion regulation and attentional control.
  • Parental attachment style. Child dispositional mindfulness.
Karri Gillespie-Smith
  • Developmental trajectories of social cognition and wellbeing in Autistic children and children with Intellectual Disabilities.
  • Contextual variables (i.e. relationships, coping strategies, emotion regulation, parenting) and their relationship with socio-cognitive processes and wellbeing.
Leonor Rodriguez-Estrada
  • Developmental impact of chronic illness.
  • Developmental impact of bereavement.
  • Research methods and ethics of child and adolescent research.
  • Impact of age, gender and individual differences on death.
  • Bereavement interventions and death education.
  • Designing and evaluating interventions; participatory, arts-based and technology-based research.
Monica Truelove-Hill
  • The impact of parental stress and burnout on children
Monja Knoll
  • Socio-emotional and linguistic development across a wide range of lifespan stages 
  • Long-term mental health outcomes in looked after and accommodated children
  • Parent-child interactions and their impact on mental health and relationships
  • Emotional intelligence and pet relationships as protective factors for children’s and young people’s mental health
Suzanne O'Rourke
  • Pre-natal alcohol exposure (PAE) or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders if inclusive of FASD.
  • Relevance of pre-natal alcohol exposure (PAE) in increasing the risk of other neurodevelopmental conditions or the misdiagnosis of FASD.
  • Prevalence or relevance of PAE or FASD in high-risk groups.

Research Interests

Zsofia Garai-Takacs
  • Anxiety, including clinical and subclinical levels in both adults and children and young people.
  • Experimental manipulations (e.g. mindfulness).
  • State anxiety.
Alice Gritti
  • Mental health and psychosocial support interventions in at-risk groups (refugees and displaced populations in Scotland).
  • Aid workers’ mental health.
  • Global mental health.
  • Widening access to mental health support.
Angus MacBeth
  • Complex mental health; personality disorder; psychosis; trauma; depression; anxiety.
  • Intervention development and evaluation.
  • Mentalization and metacognitive therapies.
  • Working with parents; parenting interventions.
  • Global mental health.
David Gillanders
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
  • Psychological Flexibility.
  • Adjustment to ill health.
  • Cancer survivorship, particularly Prostate Cancer.
  • Palliative care, end of life, and bereavement.
  • Training and competency development in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Ewelina Rydzewska-Fazekas
  • Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of co-occurring conditions/disorders experienced by autistic people with/without co-occurring intellectual disabilities.
  • Intersection of various psychological, biological, and social factors contributing to the state of ill-health or wellbeing in autistic people.
Elizabeth Kirkham
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); neural correlates of OCD; neurocognitive mechanisms which contribute to the onset or maintenance of OCD; factors involved in chronicity.
  • Treatment and relapse of OCD.
  • Affective neuroscience of early life stress and its relationship to mental ill health.
  • Quantitative research; Delphi method; questionnaire-based research; EEG; experimental tasks. 
Emily Pacheco
  • Experiencing/interpreting/recovering from psychological distress; context of trauma, displacement, and adversity.
  • Culturally-responsive approaches to understanding mental health; how social context, identity, and structural factors shape clinical presentations and pathways to care.
  • Using evidence-based frameworks; remaining critically engaged with questions of access, equity, and relevance across diverse populations.
Emily Taylor
  • Attachment and interpersonal functioning.
  • Preventative and curative interventions for young people who experience significant early life adversity.
  • Care-experienced children and young people.
Fay Huntley
  • Working clinically in forensic settings, risk assessment, eating disorders and formulation.
  • Relational models and how these may support those in distress.
Helen Griffiths
  • Application of mentalization theory; impact of mentalization-based approaches on delivery of therapy and service provision.
  • Therapist/clinician mentalizing; optimising service environments to sustain and/or enhance clinician mentalizing.
  • Impact of therapist mentalizing on therapist-patient interactions.
  • Influence of therapist/clinician mentalizing on clinical outcome and process.
  • Service responses to help-seeking individuals with complex presentations.
Helen Sharpe
  • Exploring risk and resilience processes in the development of eating disorders using large surveys.
  • Development and evaluation of prevention and early intervention approaches for eating disorders.
Ingrid Obsuth
  • Adolescence in the context of life-span development.
  • Neurodiverse adolescents (such as adolescents with ADHD).
  • PTSD; complex PTSD.
  • Emotion regulation.
  • Clinical assessment; attachment-based intervention; adolescent services; app development. 
Jamie Kennedy-Turner
  • Psychological characteristics of those in mental health professions, especially in attachment and mentalization.
  • Influence of characteristics on professionals' interactions and communication, and therapeutic effectiveness.
  • Reflective practice and its use in healthcare professions.
  • Quantitative and qualitative analyses; mediation/moderation; path analysis. 
Karen Goodall
  • Psychosis; associations between negative symptoms and childhood experiences; attachment style, childhood adversity and trauma.
  • Attachment-based interventions for staff working with inpatients.
  • Trauma-informed working across services, eg. substance use services.
Laura Cariola
  • Language and mental health; dyadic interactions, psychotherapeutic processes, and intervention outcomes.
  • Minority populations and mental health.
  • Representations of mental health in public discourse.
  • Developmental experiences in migrant youth (including Third Culture Kids).
  • Developmental experiences in LGBTQIA+ youth.
  • Lived mental health experiences and media portrayals of mental health, and implications for stigma and support.
Maria Gardani
  • Onset and maintenance of sleep and circadian difficulties across the lifespan.
  • Association of sleep with mental health and wellbeing in addition to physiological and environmental factors.
  • Designing tailored sleep intervention programs to improve sleep and mental health outcomes across different populations.
Mark Hoelterhoff
  • Intersection of clinical psychology, positive psychology, and higher education.
  • Wellbeing, resilience, and transformative learning.
  • Strengths-based and relational approaches.
  • Psychological growth in individuals and systems, especially within university communities.
  • Intrapersonal strengths, identity development, and systemic factors.
Paul Graham Morris
  • Wellbeing benefits of nature; reducing distress or mental health difficulties among clinical populations; gardening, walking in nature, or engaging with wildlife.
  • Outdoor Psychological Therapy; conducting psychological therapy outdoors, evaluating provision of outdoor psychological therapy.
  • Reducing or prevent eco-emotions from reaching levels that have a substantial negative effect upon mental and/or physical health.
Sue Turnbull
  • Neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, support and adjustment to dementia and neurological conditions including functional neurological conditions.  
  • Neurodiverse older adults in mental health and dementia assessment and support.
Tahcita Medrado Mizael
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT); Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP); Process-based Behavior Therapy (PBBT).
  • Clients from minoritised backgrounds.
  • Cultural competence.
  • Assessing and improving psychological therapies for non-White, LGBTQIA+, autistic and other minorisited groups.
  • Feminist approaches to psychotherapy and affirmative therapy.
Tim Bird
  • Development of psychopathology.
  • Mediators of change in psychological therapies.
  • Mentalising; relationship between mentalising and wellbeing in psychological therapy trainees; impact of therapist mentalising on therapist-patient interactions in psychological therapies.

Counselling Studies

The expertise of our academics in Counselling and Psychotherapy specialise in qualitative, reflexive and critical approaches to research, and have particular expertise in practice-based research that draws directly on practitioners' own therapeutic work, on the client's experience of therapy, and in narrative, reflexive and auto-ethnographic methods. We are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life.

Supervisor Specialties:

Research Interests

Prof Amy Chandler
  • Suicide Studies
  • Self Harm
  • Community health
  • Qualitative methods
Dr Andy Harrod
  • Nature & Health
  • Nature-based Interventions
  • Critical Green Social Prescribing
  • Individual, Community & Ecological Wellbeing
  • Relational Selves (Being & Belonging)
  • Critical Therapeutic Landscapes Experiences
  • Person-centred Psychotherapy Inquiry
Dr Sarah Huque
  • Suicide Studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Community health
  • Access to blue and green spaces
  • Participatory research methods
Dr Mariya Levitanus
  • Queer and Trans Lives
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Sexuality and relationship diversity within counselling and psychotherapy
  • Narrative inquiry
  • Decolonial queer and trans approaches
  • Queer ethics
Dr Hazel Marzetti
  • Suicide Studies
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Health inequalities
  • Interdisciplinary approaches
  • Qualitative methods
Dr Anna Ross
  • Drugs recovery
  • Drugs use
  • Drug Policy
  • Alternative health
  • Critical health policy
  • Spirituality
Dr Paula Jacobs
  • Disability Studies
  • Intellectual disability
  • Care-relationships
  • Care-experienced children and young people
  • Ethics of care
  • Qualitative research
Dr Katey Warran
  • Community health
  • Arts-Based Methologies
  • Cultural sociology
  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Qualitative methods

Research Interests

Dr Andy Harrod
  • Nature & Health
  • Nature-based Interventions
  • Critical Green Social Prescribing
  • Individual, Community & Ecological Wellbeing
  • Relational Selves (Being & Belonging)
  • Critical Therapeutic Landscapes Experiences
  • Person-centred Psychotherapy Inquiry
Dr Nini Kerr
  • Psychoanalytic inquiry
  • Psychosocial Studies
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Critical theroy and postcolonial criticism
  • Creative methodologies
  • Psychoanalytically-informed cultural analysis
Dr Fiona Murray
  • Feminist inquiry
  • Post-humanist inquiry
  • Autoethnography
  • Writing as a method of inquiry
  • Research-creation and multimodal projects
  • Pornography
  • Relationships in counselling and psychotherapy
Dr J. Karen Serra Undurraga
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Neoliberalism in Everyday Life
  • (Neo)colonialism and neoliberalism
  • Decolonisation in Higher Education in the UK
Dr Zoi Simopoulou
  • Research relationships
  • Psychoanalytic inquiry
  • Death Studies
  • Arts-based methologies
  • Relational psychoanalysis
  • Childhood; living losses; grief; death and dying
  • Intergenerational hauntings; spirituality
Prof Jonathan Wyatt
  • Post-structural, post-humanist, new materialist, and 'post-qualitative' inquiries
  • Autoethnography ('assemblage/ethnography')
  • Writing and collaborative writing as inquiry
  • The experience of loss
  • The therapeutic encounter

Research Interests

Dr Marisa De Andrade
  • Social inequalities
  • Community health
  • Community-led approaches to tackling inequalities
Dr Sarah Huque
  • Suicide Studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Community health
  • Access to blue and green spaces
  • Participatory research methods
Dr Nini Kerr
  • Psychoanalytic inquiry
  • Psychosocial Studies
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Critical theroy and postcolonial criticism
  • Creative methodologies
  • Psychoanalytically-informed cultural analysis
Dr Mariya Levitanus
  • Queer and Trans Lives
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Sexuality and relationship diversity within counselling and psychotherapy
  • Narrative inquiry
  • Decolonial queer and trans approaches
  • Queer ethics
Dr Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Performance Studies
  • Death Studies
  • Uses of lived experience in theatre and performance
  • Dance and movement at the intersection of mental health
  • Creative approaches to counselling and psychotherapy
Dr J. Karen Serra Undurraga
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Neoliberalism in Everyday Life
  • (Neo)colonialism and neoliberalism
  • Decolonisation in Higher Education in the UK

Research Interests

Dr Hazel Marzetti
  • Suicide Studies
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Health inequalities
  • Interdisciplinary approaches
  • Qualitative methods
Dr Fiona Murray
  • Feminist inquiry
  • Post-humanist inquiry
  • Autoethnography
  • Writing as a method of inquiry
  • Research-creation and multimodal projects
  • Pornography
  • Relationships in counselling and psychotherapy
Dr Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Performance Studies
  • Death Studies
  • Uses of lived experience in theatre and performance
  • Dance and movement at the intersection of mental health
  • Creative approaches to counselling and psychotherapy
Dr Zoi Simopoulou
  • Research relationships
  • Psychoanalytic inquiry
  • Death Studies
  • Arts-based methologies
  • Relational psychoanalysis
  • Childhood; living losses; grief; death and dying
  • Intergenerational hauntings; spirituality
Prof Jonathan Wyatt
  • Post-structural, post-humanist, new materialist, and 'post-qualitative' inquiries
  • Autoethnography ('assemblage/ethnography')
  • Writing and collaborative writing as inquiry
  • The experience of loss
  • The therapeutic encounter
Dr Katey Warran
  • Community health
  • Arts-Based Methologies
  • Cultural sociology
  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Qualitative methods

Health in Social Science

Our staff in Health in Social Science embrace a range of academic disciplines and offer a focus on innovative and cross-disciplinary health and social care research. From these perspectives we examine the overlapping concerns of research, policy and practice in health and social care. We welcome projects utilising a range of research designs and have special interests in qualitative and collaborative research and innovative methods. We are keen to encourage research around the interface between social and cultural aspects of health, and the policy and practice contexts of healthcare delivery.

Nursing Studies

Our main areas of research activity and development in Nursing Studies currently relate to the themes of experience of health and illness, and organisation and policy for person-centred care. We have expertise in a range of qualitative and quantitative and mixed methods research approaches. An important aspect of our work concerns knowledge transfer and effective engagement with NHS, social care and lay organisations.

Supervisor Specialties:

Research Interests 

Professor Aisha Holloway
  • Global Nursing Workforce
  • Policy development, policy influence, 
  • Human Resources for Health, early career development, practice, regulation, legislation, attraction, retention
  • Leadership development, political leadership, workforce pay negotiations
  • Trials, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Process Evaluations
Dr Catherine Clarissa
  • Global Nursing Workforce
  • Nursing Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Leadership developement in early career nursing
Professor Tonks Fawcett
  • Clinical decision making
Dr Elaine Haycock-Stuart
  • Education of workforce
  • Primary care community-leadership and workforce
Dr Marti Balaam
  • Workforce Wellbeing: self compassion, burnout
  • Representations of nurses in the media, gender, sociology
  • Qualitative methods, social constructionism, hermeneutics
Dr Lissette Aviles
  • Global nursing workforce
  • Nursing emotion management and wellbeing
  • Evidence-based nursing education in practice
Dr Jenni Tocher
  • Interdisciplinary simulated learning
Dr Sarah Rhynas
  • Student nurse education
  • Transition to newly qualified nursing roles
  • Skills acquisition and simulation in curricular development
  • Coaching approaches in nurse education
  • Creative approaches to nurse education
Dr Susanne Kean
  • Workforce: nurses in critical care issues

Research Interests 

Professor Tonks Fawcett
  • Cancer care issues
  • Pain
Dr Lissette Aviles
  • Stroke and acquired brain injury rehabilitation's experiences
  • Experiences of organ donation and transplantation
  • Family and person-centred care in critical care and practice
  • Death and dying in critical care contexts
Dr Susanne Kean
  • Person and family centered care (PFCC) in critical care
  • Recovery and/or survivorship after critical illness 
  • Experiences of families and patients with acute and/or chronic critical illness
  • Intervention studies in critical care
Dr Catherine Clarissa
  • Post-stroke rehabilitation for young adults
  • Multidisciplinary team in critical care
  • Patient experience of intensive care
Dr Jenni Tocher
  • Liver, renal and/or pancreatic surgery
  • Nurses experiences of approaching relatives for organ donation
  • Pain in critical care
Dr Colin Chandler
  • Neurorehabilitation

Research Interests

Professor Aisha Holloway
  • Global Public Health: LMICs, Alcohol, NCDs, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Complex Health Interventions
Dr Elaine Haycock-Stuart
  • Breastfeeding
  • Maternal health
  • Childhood injury
Dr Divya Sivaramakrishnan
  • Intervention development and evaluation
  • Physical activity and sedentary behaviour
  • Healthy ageing
Dr Glenna Nightingale
  • Epidemiology
  • Evaluation of public health interventions
  • Modelling Longitudinal health related data
Dr Andrew James Williams
  • Child and adolescent health and rights
  • Complex systems and health (health creation)
Dr Stephen Malden
  • Childhood obesity
Dr Sarah Rhynas
  • Dementia and ageing
  • Delirium, older people
  • Alcohol related harm, homelessness
  • Creative research approaches

Research Interests

Dr Richard Lowrie
  • Multimorbidity
  • Clinical trials of pragmatic interventions
  • Substance misuse including technological innovations to prevent overdose
  • Respiratory
Dr Stephen Malden
  • Homelessness
Prof Sarah Johnsen
  • Homelessness and inclusion health
Dr Rosie Stenhouse
  • Mental health
  • Global mental health
  • Power/discourse analysis
  • Social determinants of mental health
Dr Leah Macaden
  • Ageing 
  • Dementia including pedagogical approaches to workforce development, sensory impairments, dignity
  • End of life care
Dr Sarah Rhynas
  • Dementia care, ageing
  • Alcohol related harm, homeless and marginalised groups
  • Reaching marginalised populations with creative research approaches