My teaching interests include: medical sociology, qualitative research methods, healthcare improvement research, critical public health, population based screening, women's health, and health policy.
I am an experienced PhD supervisor and have supervised six students to completion to date. My current and completed students are shown below.
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PhD supervisor to Rachel Lewis
Working title: Deprescribing within the care home setting for patients with limited capacity: Achieving a person-centred approach
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PhD supervisor to Shavez Jeffers
Working title: Navigating perceived overdiagnosis and overtreatment - a sociological analysis of the experiences of people who decline treatment for anomalies identified through screening
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PhD supervisor to Francesca Quattri
Working title: The challenges of seeking to avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment - exploring defensive practice
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PhD supervisor to Gill Doe (Department of Respiratory Sciences)
Working title: Diagnostic pathways for chronic breathlessness
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PhD supervisor to
Fawn HarradWorking title: Understanding hospital transfers from care homes in England.
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PhD supervisor to
Julia ClarkWorking title: How can we prevent avoidable stillbirths? Understanding the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of national clinical guidelines in antenatal care for reduced fetal movement.
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PhD supervisor to
Jude Robinson (University of Nottingham)
Working title: Bundling and unbundling interventions in infection control.
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PhD supervisor to
Caroline Cupit - PhD awarded December 2018, University of Leicester (Winner of College of Life Sciences Prize for Excellent PhD Performance)
Thesis title: An ethnographic study of cardiovascular disease prevention: The social organisation of measures, knowledge, interventions and tensions in English general practice.