Past Doctoral Research Projects
2016 Intake
- Adolescents’ experiences of panic attacks: a qualitative analysis
- A grounded theory study exploring factors which contribute to the resilience of female nurses working in the neonatal care unit
- The experience of co-production for individuals with emotional intensity difficulties: a qualitative investigation using interpretative phenomenological analysis
- Building self-compassion to tackle fears about other people: A feasibility study of a compassionate imagery intervention
- Investigating the presence of a negative selection bias towards ptosis in young children
- Establishing psychometric properties of three brief neuropsychological tests aligned to the cognitive domains of the mental capacity act (2005).
- Combining light therapy and behavioural therapy for insomnia: a Feasibility study
- How adolescent transgender males experience expressing their gender identity around new people: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
- How do individual differences in affective flexibility influence the trajectory of anxiety and worry over time?
- Parental experiences of psychological treatment for their Adolescent’s anxiety disorder: a qualitative study using interpretative Phenomenological analysis
- An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring how psychiatrists conceptualise conduct disorder (CD) and experience making the diagnosis
- Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention
- Does regret matter? Exploring the association between sex, regret, and Psychological wellbeing in young women
- An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of secondary school staff receiving a first-hand, first-time disclosure of sexual abuse from a child
- A qualitative exploration of relational dynamics in women with female genital mutilation (FGM): an interpretative phenomenological analysis
2015 Intake
- Metacognitive factors in spinal cord injury rehabilitation
- The experiences of parents with autism spectrum disorder who have a child with autism spectrum disorder: an interpretative phenomenological approach
- Establishing the validity of targeted cognitive profiling as a guide for mental Capacity assessments after stroke.
- Focus of attention as a maintenance factor for social anxiety in children
- The effect of ruminative and mindfulness-based processing of stressful parenting Events on parental emotional reactivity
- Having a child with an intellectual disability transition to adulthood: A parental perspective.
- Sleep disturbance as a risk factor for depression: emotional processing in individuals with insomnia and healthy volunteers
- A case series investigating care home staff outcomes following their use of a psychosocial intervention with residents with dementia: how does it impact their attitudes, knowledge about residents, and communication skills?
- Resolving ruptures in the therapeutic alliance using a relational mindfulness exercise – a task analytic study
- The impact of a behavioural weight management programme on emotional eating and the impact of emotional eating on weight loss and regain
- The meaning of interpersonal relationships for women who are homeless: A qualitative investigation using interpretive phenomenological analysis
2014 Intake
- Improving the clinical understanding and measurement of dissociation
- Sleep, sleep difficulties and neurocognition
- Cognitive bias modification, bulimia nervosa and the treatment of eating disorders
- Application of a cognitive model of bulimia nervosa to obesity
- Women who have experienced intimate partner violence and return to an abusive relationship
- The experience of receiving dexamethasone during treatment for acute lymhoblastic leukaemia and lymphoblastic lymphona in adolescence
- An exploratory study of executive functioning in older offenders
- Parents of adults with MS: What is their role and how does it change over time? A grounded theory study
- Mood and anxiety in stroke survivors; links to cognition and lesion
- Predicting activity/engagement 6 months post stroke
- Experience of social interaction and communication after attending a Cognitive Stimulation Group
- How is mindfulness in schools experienced by adolescents from a South Asian background?
- Recall to hospital from conditional community discharge
- Young adults' experience of ovarian tissue cryopreservation and cancer treatment
- Adoptive parents' experience of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy