PhD
Staff in HSRU are fully supported in undertaking a PhD. They are also encouraged to provide supervisory support for full or part-time PhD students. The following staff members are currently accepting PhD's:
HSRU has a strong track record of PhD supervision in health service research. As a PhD student you will be part of HSRU interacting with a team of researchers working in your area of interest.
Details of potential funding for PhD research within HSRU may be found in the University of Aberdeen Funding Database.
For general enquiries about undertaking a PhD within HSRU please email hsru@abdn.ac.uk.
Please click here to view all current University of Aberdeen opportunities.
Below are our current HSRU ongoing PhD projects.
Ongoing projects
- Changing behaviour to enable the design and delivery of greener trials - Frank You
- Eliciting and incorporating patients’ opinions about missing data in randomised controlled trials - Sophie Greenwood
- Ewait: Effects of waiting times on quality of life, leisure activities and support needs in patients awaiting elective surgery in Scotland - Elisabeth Kirchner
- Improvement without exception? An investigation of enactments of ‘Treatment as Prevention’ and strategies to enhance responsiveness to diverse priorities for wellbeing in HIV care - Paul Kefford
- Making it easier for trial teams to design inclusive trials - Azar Alexander-Sefre
- Optimising the responsible use of antibiotics - Shazia Yousuf
- Patient and Public Involvement in trials: defining a numerical aspect of trial- target difference - Vitri Darlene
Examples of recently completed projects
- Behavioural interventions to improve clinical trial recruitment and retention - Taylor Coffey
- Complex designs in randomised clinical trials – a case study in dentistry - Beatriz Goulao
- IDENTIFY - The Investigation and Detection of Urological Neoplasia in Patients Referred with suspected urinary tract cancer: A Multicentre cohort study - Sinan Khadhouri
- Interrupted times series (ITS) evaluation - Jemma Hudson
- What is the best way to avoid recruitment and retention problems in trials? - Adel El Feky
- Making clinical trials more efficient: consolidating, communicating and improving knowledge of patient recruitment interventions - Heidi Green
- ‘Soft’ Intelligence and Online Patient Feedback: Using Care Opinion for NHS Quality Improvement in Scotland - Emma Berry
- Towards improvement in care delivery in Huntington's disease (HD) - Daniela Rae
- Understanding family experiences of inherited motor neurone disease (MND) - a qualitative study - Jade Howard