Here you can find a list of our current PG research students/ fellows, and lower down a list of recently completed degrees/fellowships.
| Name | Degree | Project Title |
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| Adeloye, Davies | PhD | Estimating the Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Africa in the Year 2010: A Systematic Review of the Evidence |
| Anderson, Lorraine | PhD | Epidemiology/Sociology/Health Promotion |
| Andreadis, Petros | PhD | Mixed methods: Exploring how biomedical practitioners in Mpumalanga, South Africa, navigate tensions surrounding the use of African traditional medicine.
A study exploring methods and epistemologies within a complex medical pluralist environment. |
| Banas, Kasia | PhD | Incorporating psychological notions of social and personal identity into economic models of decision making |
| Barry, Michele | PhD | Economic Evaluation of Health Care Technologies |
| Boghossian, Sheila | PhD | Risk factor for the development and progression of venous disease in the general population: Edinburgh Vein Study |
| Bromley, Catherine | PhD | An analysis of the epidemiology of persistent and multiple developmental problems using the GUS study to inform early years surveillance and risk assessment practice in Scotland |
| Carduff, Emma | PhD | Exploring the potential of qualitative longitudinal methods for examining the illness experience of people with advanced advanced colorectal cancer |
| Coates, Nicola | PhD | Dialogues of diagnosis between parents of children with undiagnosed disability |
| Connolly, Suzanne | PhD | Barriers and facilitators to weight loss in post-partum women: a qualitative study |
| Cresswell, Kathrin | PhD | UK Prevelance of Food Allergy |
| Dobbs, Nick | PhD | The impact of early onset epilepsy on the parents and siblings of affected children |
| Doyle, Emma | PhD | Calling NHS 24: An exploration of illness behaviour amongst people using the service |
| Ensor, Hannah | PhD | Statistical evaluation of surrogate endpoints: methodological extensions to ordinal outcomes, with applications in acute stroke and head injury |
| Feinkohl, Insa | PhD | Risk factors for cognitive impairment in people with type 2 diabetes |
| Grant, Ian | PhD | Epidemiology of alcohol-related cancers |
| Hammersley, Victoria | PhD | Allergic Disease in Children 12-17 Years |
| Harkness, Mairi | PhD | Issues of pregnant women with RhD negative blood type |
| Horne, Margaret | PhD | Novel approaches to the measurement of outcome,its analysis, and improving its efficiency: population-based study and individual patient data meta-analysis of adults with vascular malformations of the brain |
| Jeavons, Sarah | PhD | "Integrating sexual health services: a qualitative study of service-users' experiences" |
| Joshi, Peter | PhD | Using imputation of exome sequences and 2.5 million SNP arrays to discover rare functional genetic variation influencing cardiovascular and metabolic disease-related traits |
| Kapadia, Mufiza | PhD | Evaluation of chlamydia testing and treatment service in community pharmacies of Lothian, Scotland |
| Keller, Marketa | PhD | Casual risk factors for age-related cognitive impairment |
| Kimbell, Barbara | PhD | Exploring the supportive care needs of people with advanced chronic liver disease: a qualitative longitudinal, multi-perspective study |
| King, Caroline | PhD | Health for all children: How professionals & parents experience the implementation of Hall 4 |
| Kirin, Mirna | PhD | Genetic analysis of cardiovascular disease-related quantitative retinal vessel traits in the population isolate of Orkney |
| Lloyd, Anna | PhD | Investigating the potential of qualitative longitudinal methods in researching the needs and experiences of the frail elderly towards the end of life. |
| Lone, Nazir | PhD | An evaluation of five-year survival and major health care resource use following admission to Scottish intensive care units to inform future service delivery and organisation |
| McHugh, Gillian | PhD | Design & Analysis of Clinical Trials in Head Injury |
| McKenna, Aoife | PhD | A sociological study of health-related enhancement technologies |
| McLean, Susannah | PhD | Developing Scottish, English and International projection models for the incidence and prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease using routinely collected data |
| Mitry, Danny | PhD | Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in Scotland - clinical epidemiologyand genome wide association |
| Morling, Jo | PhD | Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the progression of hepatic fibrosis in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Nahhas, Mahmoud | PhD | Prevalance of asthma in children (Saudia Arabia) |
| Namukwaya, Elizabeth | PhD | Quality of life at different stagesi n the disease trajectories of palliative care patients in Mulago Hospital |
| Paul, Sally | PhD | Let’s talk about death and dying: An exploration of how schools and hospices can work together to address the social taboo of death and dying with children.
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| Pratt, Rebekah | PhD | Psychosocial experience of chronic illness & end of life |
| Read, Stephanie | PhD | Novel approaches to dealing with informative missing data: prospective, population-based register of people with diabetes |
| Robertson, Christine | PhD | Intima media thickness in type 2 diabetes |
| Robertson, Lindsay | PhD | A population cohort study to assess lifestyle & clinical factors that determine the progression of venous disease in the legs |
| Ross, Emily | PhD | Conceptualising the maternal/foetal relationship and the shaping of health related practices during pregnancy |
| Rowa-Dewar, Neneh | PhD | Smoking Ban Research |
| Sarfraz, Juneda | PhD | Opportunities & Challenges of health promotion in multi-generational South Asian families in Scotland |
| Stephen, Jacquie | PhD | Statistical modelling of biomarkers across multiple clinical trials |
| Thompson, Douglas | PhD | The predicted risk of harm versus treatment benefit in large randomised controlled trials. |
| Tjelta, Thomas | PhD | The Impact of Raising the age of purchase of cigarettes |
| Wang, Du | PhD | HPV Vaccination in the UK and China; implications for cervical screening |
| Weishaar, Heide | PhD | Transnational tobacco corporations and health policy in the European Union |
| Wood, Rachel | PhD | Impact of the move from universal to targeted child health surveillance on inequalities in child health |
| Zhang, Shanshan | PhD | Economic evaluation and decision analysis in dentistry |
| Name | Degree | Completed | Project Title |
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| Mukherjee, Mome | MRes | 2012 | Blood Transfusion in critically ill patients |
| Nair, Harish | PhD | 2012 | Role of seasonal influenza in the aetiology of hospitalised acute lower respiratory infections in young children |
| Golding, Pauline | PhD | 2011 | Statistical methods for describing gene-environment |
| Mgonja, Miriam | PhD | 2011 | Integrated studies addressing the incidence of Severe Maternal Morbidity in Kilombero district, Tanzania |
| Baneshi, Reza | PhD | 2009 | Statistical models in prognostic modelling with many skewed variables and missing data: a case study in breast cancer |
| Theodoratou, Evropi | PhD | 2008 | Colorectal cancer and diet in Scotland |
| Ahmad, Naureen | PhD | | Diabetes in South Asians |
| Bolton, Jennifer | PhD | | Common candidate genotypes & conventional risk factors as predictors of 20 year risk of atherosclerotic vascular disease in Scottish men: the Edinburgh Heart Disease Study |
| Denmark, Chris | PhD | | Interaction patterns in the family systems of individuals with drug misuse problems attending drug misuse services in Edinburgh - A study applying theoretical framework of Brief Strategic Family Therapy |
| Ding, Jie | PhD | | Inflammation & Microvascular Disease in the aetiology of cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes |
| Harris, Bridget | PhD | | Selective brain colling in brain injured patients |
| Karunaratne, Vidarshi | PhD | | Quantitative Genetics & Ophthalmology |
| McQuillan, Ruth | PhD | | Genetic isolate population in Orkney |
| Sikasote, Janet | PhD | | Effect of voluntary counselling and testing and a negative HIV result on risk behaviour: a qualitative longitudinal study in a Zambian mining community |
| Smith, Joel | PhD | | Modelling the Household Decision Process of Anti-R |
| Walker, Jeremy | PhD | | Housing Environment & cardio-respiratory health in early old age |
