Doctoral research in all forms is a vital and exciting part of SWECW's culture. We offer a stimulating and creative environment for discussions around research, with regular seminars, opportunities for further learning, developing skills and networking. We have strong collaborations spanning other University Departments and Faculties. This means that our Doctoral students undertake a diverse range of cutting-edge multi-disciplinary projects.
Find out more about our Postgraduate Research Degrees and/or contact Dr. Jason Scott ([email protected]) or Dr. Michael Hill ([email protected])
Find out more about our Doctorial students, their areas of interest and contact information below.
Saoud Al-Jamali
Qatar Learning Management Project: Exploration of factors influencing secondary school teachers’ practices
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Supervisor: Professor Monique Lhussier
Sasha Ban
The study is an investigation into adolescents’ perspective of their development using Sen’s Capabilities Approach (Sen, 2005). Utilising Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-Ecological Model (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) the study will explore the role of significant others in the adolescents' development.
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Supervisor: Dr Sean McCusker
Lucy Barker
"Becoming an Inclusive practitioner. Trainee teachers' experience, understanding and enactment of inclusive pedagogy on practice placement.”
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Supervisor: Dr Ian Robson
Carlie Bowman
ACTing in your best interests: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to promote psychological flexibility amongst patients and sample takers in a cervical screening programme
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Supervisor: Dr Jason Scott
Leah Bührmann
Co-develop and evaluate implementation tools for knowledge mobilisers in the integrated health and social care system across the North East and North Cumbria
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Supervisor: Dr Sebastian Potthoff
Susan Cooper
Exploring the relationship between practice educator and student
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Supervisor: Dr Hellmuth Weich
Kathleen Cowen
"Exploring challenges and facilitators to engaging older men in purposeful and meaningful social participation activities."
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Supervisor: Dr Tracy Collins
Connie Dalton
Holes in the school food safety net: Investigation of policies that exclude children and young people from access to free school meals.
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Supervisor: Dr Pamela Graham
Damilola Daniel
How do sexual violence services respond to Crisis– Exploring the consequences and impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on sexual violence services in Newcastle
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Supervisor: Dr Zeb Sattar
Catherine Darling
Young people’s experiences of talking about death when nearing end of life
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Supervisor: Professor Reinie Cordier
Jillian Duncan
‘What is the combined impact of academic, pastoral and professional support upon successful outcomes within PGCE distance-based learning?'
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Supervisor: Dr Jane Davies
Helen Forrow
Patient safety in hospice care – should we, could we and do we make falls prevention a priority? A mixed methods approach to exploring the factors affecting hospice patients and their care providers.
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Supervisor: Professor Monique Lhussier
Samantha Forster
Exploring autistic adults' experiences and perspectives of friendship.
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Supervisor: Dr Charmaine Agius Ferrante
Justine Gallagher
A Biographical Narrative Exploration of Infant Feeding in an Area with Low Breastfeeding Rates
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Supervisor: Dr Natalie Forster
Martin Gallagher
Exploring interventions to tackle service provider discrimination against Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Communities
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Supervisor: Dr Natalie Forster
Soheila Ghasri
People, place and well-being: Affinities, allegiances and inter-generational dialogue in community cricket clubs
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Supervisor: Dr Richard Lee
Linda Graham
‘Reading for Pleasure: Children’s Critical Narratives about their Reading Practices’
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Supervisor: Dr Mel Gibson
Kim Hall
Listening to Stories of 'Doing' Family: Performances of Everyday Practice in Kinship Care Families
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Supervisor: Dr Lucy Grimshaw
Deborah Herridge
'Re-imagining primary science pedagogy: Beyond Shulman, the importance of fun in learning science.'
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Supervisor: Dr Sean McCusker
Mitchell Hogg
Developing a Specialised Breathing Intervention for Treating Autonomic Dysfunction in POTS
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Supervisor: Professor Tim Rapley
Dionne Holmes
A single case study investigation into the ways in which Early Childhood Education promotes the mental health and well-being of both children and adults through applying the whole school approach to mental health and well-being.
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Supervisor: Dr Aidan Gillespie
Joanna Hume
An exploration into children’s talk within the social and cultural context of forest school.
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Supervisor: Dr Jane Davies
Robin Hyde
Exploring the impact of the Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner role within the hospital setting: a realist evaluation
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Supervisor: Dr Sonia Dalkin
Stephen Jefferies
The Approved Mental Health Professional: A State of Independence?
Supervisor: Professor Monique Lhussier
Claire Leader
Wellbeing of Nurses – A discourse analysis of Government policy related to wellbeing and the views of nurses on applicability and effectiveness through a feminist post-structuralist lens.
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Supervisor: Dr Tom Sanders
Pip Lee Meer
Gender in Education
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Supervisor: Dr Jane Davies
Michealla Lincoln
How can university training and clinical supervision support low intensity practitioners to effectively deliver a Parent-Led Cognitive Behavioural Therapy intervention and improve outcomes for children, young people and families?
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Supervisor: Dr Emily Henderson
Louise Lingwood
The experiences of health care among Deaf people.
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Supervisor: Dr Colin Cameron
Jemma Mccready
Altered social and intimate relationships in Sjögren’s syndrome, a user-led development of an intervention
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Supervisor: Dr Katie Hackett
Joanne Mcgrath
Access to health and social support services for women with multiple and complex needs – an intersectional analysis
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Supervisor: Professor Monique Lhussier
Stephen Mcstay
A study of the engagement with internet-enabled mobile technologies within the pre-registration nursing student learning environment
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Supervisor: Dr Sean McCusker
Cathryn Meredith
Safeguarding people who lack mental capacity due to dementia: an ethnographic case study
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Supervisor: Professor Toby Brandon
Lorain Miller
"How do trainee teachers' perceptions of the characteristics of expertise change as they progress through Initial Teacher training in primary education?"
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Supervisor: Dr Sue Taylor
Carol Morgan
"Examining the health care professionals’ experiences in undertaking autistic spectrum condition assessments for children with complex needs."
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Supervisor: Dr Se Kwang Hwang
Catherine Neville
Coproduction of a toolkit to develop inclusive strategies for stimming by autistic adults in the workplace and education
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Supervisor: Ms Helen Atkin
Craig Newman
Investigating the differentials in occupational therapists’ expertise in intermediate care to support risk in decision making
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Supervisor: Professor Tim Rapley
Bethany Nichol
Optimising Making Every Contact Count (MECC) in voluntary and community settings
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Supervisor: Professor Katie Haighton
David Nichol
"Becoming an academic in Higher Education: Staff perceptions of influences that support or deter the development of their professional identities"
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Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hoult
Vivien Perry
Exploring midwifery students’ opinions and experiences of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s expectations of demonstrating professional ‘good character’ whilst ‘off-duty’ and examining if social class influences this.
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Supervisor: Dr Sean McCusker
Tara Peters
'Organisational culture and its impact on attitudes to risk and multi-disciplinary working within a Children’s Social Care department'
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Supervisor: Dr Sharon Vincent
Fiona Ranson
Finding home: identifying ‘best interests’ provision for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, who are trafficked.
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Supervisor: Dr Tom Disney
Roz Rigby
Managing Boundaries: a constructivist grounded theory study of how grandmothers make sense of their role in introducing solid food.
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Supervisor: Dr Susan Carr
Matthew Robinson
Social media use as a causal role in symptoms of Social anxiety: In adolescents aged 14-16 years, does social media use have a causal relationship with social anxiety symptoms and what are the factors that influence this?
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Supervisor: Professor Reinie Cordier
Emily Round
An Investigation of Holiday Clubs and Household Food Insecurity in North-East England
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Supervisor: Professor Greta Defeyter
Danielle Rudd
Exploring the impact of cuts to social care services for parents with a learning disability and/or autism
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Supervisor: Dr Se Kwang Hwang
Michael Starr
The care experience never leaves care leavers
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Supervisor: Professor Reinie Cordier
Rita Stringfellow
The politics of health and social care: rethinking citizenship for older people in the context of devolved governance in England
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Supervisor: Dr Lucy Grimshaw
Marie Thirkell
Using creative methods to improve engagement to public health services with looked after children and young people (LACYP) in the North East.
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Supervisor: Dr Sharon Vincent
Helen Truran
A critical exploration of collective occupation as a catalyst for participation and justice.
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Supervisor: Dr Dawn Drury
Emily Vince
Inclusion in Early Years settings, what are the main factors affecting positive teacher attitudes?
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Supervisor: Dr Sean McCusker
Christopher Warnock
"Toto, we’re not in kansas anymore… an early career academic’s consideration of what lies behind the emerald curtain of higher education."
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Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hoult
John Weirs
From student to young professional: Exploring the impact of work-based placements on the transformation of undergraduate construction students.
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Supervisor: Dr Sean McCusker
Lisa Westland
A mixed methods study exploring professionals’ perspectives on identifying and reporting child concerns with children growing up with parental substance misuse within affluent families.
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Supervisor: Dr John Cavener
