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Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:

• Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
• Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
• Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
• Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
• Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
• Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...

Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,

Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research

Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law

Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...

Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:

• Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation,  morbidity and mortality.
• Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
• Health consequences of air pollution.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.

Professor Thomas has ...

Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation

KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:

Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Primary Supervision

Completed

• PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
• PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
• PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
• PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
• PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

PhD Supervision Interests

Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties

Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:

• Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
• Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’

Former PhD students are:

• Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT)  An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
• Simon Jenkins ...