Our PhD studentships are linked to PenARC project and priority areas and are an important area of capacity development to ensure the continued availability of research staff in the longer term. Students undertake research projects while being offered the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from our experienced researchers. As PenARC sets sail on its new five year research cycle we welcome aboard a new cohort of PhD students.
The new studentships reach across our research themes;
Mental Health
Sara Eddy’s research is investigating the implementation of an integrated psychological medicine service in Devon to provide both mental and physical care in a hospital setting. PhD: The implementation of integrated psychological medicine services in Devon: An ethnography of change
Public Health
Kate Allen’s research is looking at community-based public health interventions that might have combined impacts on domestic violence, mental ill-health and substance misuse.PhD: What community-based, public health interventions might have combined impacts on alcohol and substance misuse, domestic violence and mental health?
Complex Care: Methods for Research and Improvement
Emily Taylor’s research aims to identify what factors are associated with older people maintaining their independence using both quantitative, qualitative and integrative methods.PhD: Using Mixed Methods to improve our understanding of maintaining independence in Older People
Complex Care
FIT is an intervention that trains patients to use imagery to support long term goal attainment and has been used with many patient populations. PhD: Implementation of Functional Imagery Training (FIT) into primary care. Sarah Greene’s research will focus on weight management.
Public Health/Mental Health
Charlotte Featherstone’s research will contribute to our programme of work around social prescribing which seeks to generate robust evidence about what works, for whom, and in what ways in linking individuals from primary care (often their GP) to social interventions and the potential to improve health and wellbeing. PhD: Social prescribing and horticulture therapy for higher functioning autistic adults
Dementia/Methods for Research & Improvement
Mary Fredlund has been a member of the Peninsula Childhood Disability Research Unit Family Faculty since 2011 and is a Co-investigator on the Healthy Parent Carer’s Programme feasibility study. Her PhD research involves developing new methods to ensure that evidence influences decision-making for one of the most pressing challenges resulting from an ageing population. PhD: Non-pharmacological interventions for dementia behaviours: developing and evaluating a ‘living’ evidence and gap map
We look forward to working with all of the new PhD students and wish them every success on their research journey.