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Postgraduate Research Student Achievements 2012
PhDs Awarded in 2012
Conference Presentations in 2012
Rosemary Barber
Exploring the meaning and impact of public involvement in research.
Parveen Ali
Andrew Booth
Intimate partner violence in the Pakistani community
Acknowledging a ‘Dual Heritage’ for Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.
Clare Bale
Joanne Coster
Exploring young people’s perceptions of the impact of sexualised media on their sexual health:
A qualitative study
Developing and Testing a Data Linkage Method for Ambulance Service and NHS Data and using it to
Assess patient Outcomes
Katie Dhingra
Philippa Fibert
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among University Students
The treatment of children with behavioural disorders using Homeopathy
GP led Walk-in Centres in the UK; Another way of urgent health care provision. Mubashir Arain, Jon
Nicholl, Mike Campbell. Feb 2012. GRF One Health Summit in 2012. Davos, Switzerland.
David Dias Neto
Gordon Fuller
Jill Carlton
Listening to elaboration in psychotherapy: the understanding of assimilation using narrative indices
Suzy Paisley
PhD investigating the clinical and cost effectiveness of alternative management pathways for head
injured patients
Zubairu Iliyasu
Identifying Evidence for Decision-Analytic Models
Sexual and reproductive behaviour of HIV positive men and the health system’s response: A mixed
method study in Kano, northern Nigeria
Marian Peacock
Women’s experiences of living in an unequal society
Syed Muhammad Ashraf Jahangeer Al-Saani
Khadija Rantell
An Investigation into the Relationship Between Risk of Mortality on Admission to a Paediatric Intensive
Care Unit and Health Related Quality of Life at Six Month Follow-up in the United Kingdom
Tony Smith
Identifying the Key Elements of Effective Leadership in Interdisciplinary Heath and Social Care Teams
Mark Strong
Prognostic Factors of Progressive Intra Cranial Haemorrhage Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Maxine Johnson
Experiences of health professionals and service users in relation to the prevention and care of type
2 diabetes
Mohammed Kabir
Managing Structural Uncertainty in Health Economic Decision Models
Effectiveness of a health education campaign on knowledge of, attitude to and practice of family
planning in Dawakin Kudu and Kumbotso villages, Kano State, Nigeria
Carl Tilling
Jiban Karki
Are productivity costs included in the QALY, and how much do members of the general public think a
QALY is worth?
Sharada Wasti
How Public-Private Partnerships help to Revitalize Primary Healthcare in Nepal
Samuel Lassa
Examining the interactions between major factors in the health systems strengthening interventions
by Global Fund in Nigeria using the WHO systems thinking approach
Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in Nepal
Corrine Owers
MPhils awarded in 2012
Joseph Akanuwe
Exploring the Impact of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) on Quality of Care and
Inequalities in Diabetes Care in England
Sarita Panday
The role of social, economic and demographic development in the reduction of maternal mortality
in Nepal
Rajiv Singh
Patient and Practitioner Understanding of Traditional and Western Medical Acupuncture in Practice:
A Qualitative Study
Successful Upgrades in 2012
There were 22 successful upgrades from MPhil to PhD in 2012
Noura Abouammoh
Amal Alaswad
Thamer Altaim
Yvonne Bartlett
James Fotheringham
Laura Gibson
Ibrahim Gosadi
Paul Griffiths
Sabine Grimm
Milad Karimi
Eun-Ju Kim
Ying Man Law
Chris Littlewood
Dua Qutishat
Muhammad Sadiq
Koonal Shah
Sarah Smith
Kinga Sokolowska-Lowrie
Henock Taddese
Petter Viksveen
Carol Weir
Emily Wood
Ji Hee Youn
Akparibo R, Harris, J. Holdsworth M and Blank L. (2012). Effectiveness of community-based
management of childhood severe acute malnutrition: A Realist synthesis of research evidence.
African Nutrition society Conference, September 2012 in South Africa.
Mubashir Arain
Development of a paediatric disease-specific health-related quality of life measure for amblyopia: the
Child Amblyopia Treatment Quality of Life Questionnaire (CAT-QoL). XIIth International Orthoptic
Scientific Congress. Toronto, Canada, 26th-29th June 2012.
Philippa Fibert
Poster presentation at Wisshom - the Scientific Society for Homeopathy in Germany. ‘A Comparative
Case Series exploring whether homeopathic treatment is be an effective intervention for children
with ADHD’
James Fotheringham
Using linked routine health data to improve quality of life for kidney patients - All Party Parliamentary
Group on Medical Research, The House of Commons, July 2012
Hospital associated mortality in incident renal replacement therapy patients in England 2002–2006:
a performance indicator - Renal Association Meeting, Gateshead, June 2012
Laura Gibson
Poster presentation at the ESRC Research Methods Festival 2012. ‘Does Breastfeeding protect against
Childhood Obesity?’ Received first prize in PhD Poster Competition.
Isa Abubakar
Impact evaluation of a Maternal and Child Health intervention programme in Northern Nigeria
Sanusi Abubakar
Role of Health Literacy Questionnaires in the Assessment of HIV-Positive Clients Attending Antenatal
Care Services in Health Facilities in Nigeria
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy- Low back pain - Outcome Measures
Poster presentation at Royal Society of Medicine in London,
November 2012. ‘Guidance for modellers for developing public
health economic models.’
William Sullivan
Developing a framework for incorporating links between health
behaviours into policy evaluation. Paper and Presentation at
Kettil Bruun Society Annual Meeting, Stavanger, June 2012.
(Abstract published in International Journal of Alcohol and Drug
Research).
Petter Viksveen
Presentation of the DEPSY research project at the Mental Health Congress, in Bad Krözingen,
Germany, 23 – 25 March 2012.
Presentation of the DEPSY research project at the Cohort multiple RCT design workshop,
6th July 2012.
Emily Wood
Poster presentation at the 18th International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research in Oxford,
26-27th September 2012. ‘Sheffield EMDR and Depression Investigation (SEDI) – The reconsolidation
model of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (ENDR) and how it can be tested with
regard to the emotional impact of the memory and the pathology impact of the memory and the
pathology associated with it in patients with long term depression.’
Treating Long Term Depression: EMDR and the Reconsolidation of Traumatic Autobiographical
Memories. 11th Annual Student Spring Symposium 2012, CITY College, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2012.
Rebecca Hutten
Professional Identity and Practice in the New Psychotherapy Workforce. In Sociology in an Age of
Austerity. British Sociological Association Annual Conference. University of Leeds, 11-13 April 2012.
Publications from PhDs in 2012
Translating knowledge in to performance: some specific dilemmas for IAPT trainees. British
Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists, 40th Annual Conference. University of
Leeds, 27th-29th June 2012.
Amy Booth
Dilemmas of the trainee psychological therapist. In Social Policy in an Unequal World. Joint Annual
Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network (EASP) and the United Kingdom Social
Policy Association (SPA). University of York, 16-18 July 2012.
Chris Littlewood
Eunju Kim
Booth, A. R., Harris, P. R., Goyder, E. and Norman P. (2012). Beliefs about chlamydia testing amongst
young people living in relatively deprived areas. Journal of Public Health; Published Online First 5 Oct 2012.
Littlewood C, Lowe A, Moore J (2012). Rotator cuff disorders: A survey of current UK Physiotherapy
practice. Shoulder & Elbow 4(1), p. 64-71.
Littlewood C, Chance-Larsen K, May S, Sturrock B (2012). Exercise for rotator cuff tendinopathy: A
systematic review. Physiotherapy 98(2), p. 101-109.
Chris Littlewood
Stephanie Thurston
Rotator cuff disorders: A survey of current UK Physiotherapy practice. Physiotherapy UK, 2012,
Liverpool.
Littlewood C, Ashton J, Mawson S, May S, Walters S (2012). A mixed methods study to evaluate the
clinical and cost-effectiveness of a self-managed exercise programme versus usual physiotherapy for
chronic rotator cuff disorders: protocol for the SELF study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 13:62.
Jonathan Tosh
Poster presentation at British Society of Matrix Biology, Norwich, UK 2012. Littlewood C, Malliaras P,
May S, Walters S. ‘A model to explain pain associated with rotator cuff tendinopathy and a rationale
for response to therapeutic exercise.’
Drew B, Smith T, Littlewood C, Sturrock B (2012). Do structural changes explain the response to
exercise in tendinopathy? A systematic review. British Journal of Sports Medicine (doi:10.1136/
bjsports-2012-091285).
Theoretical and applied methodology for the economic evaluation of sequential therapies for chronic
conditions
Poster presentation at British Society of Matrix Biology, Norwich, UK 2012. Drew B, Smith T,
Littlewood C, Sturrock B. Do structural changes explain the response to exercise in tendinopathy?
Littlewood C (2012). Contractile dysfunction of the shoulder (rotator cuff tendinopathy): an overview.
Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy, 20(4), 209-213.
Amy Whitehead
Brian Reddy
Koonal Shah
Investigating MCDA approaches for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Presentation at 25th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), Vilnius, July 2012.
Sarah Smith
Shraddha Tandan
Health-related behaviour of Older Nepalese in the UK
Adaptation of a Health Economic Model of Treatments for ACS as New Evidence and Decision
Problems Emerge
Statistical issues in the designing of pilot studies
MCDA approaches to prioritisation in NICE. Presentation at OR Society Conference (OR54),
Edinburgh, September 2012.
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Approaches to Prioritisation in NICE. Presentation at Festival
of Public Health, Manchester, July 2012.
A Nice Use for MCDA in Public Health - Potential new approaches in the National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence. Presentation at Student Conference on Operational Research (SCOR),
Nottingham, April 2012.
Koonal Shah
Valuing health at the end of life: An empirical study of public preferences. Presentation at Society for
Medical Decision Making European Meeting. Oslo. 10-12 June 2012.
New Starters in 2012
A conceptual modelling framework for Public Health economic
modelling. 25th European Conference on Operational Research
(Euro OR), Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2012.
Sequential drug decision problems in long-term medical conditions: systematic review on potential
heuristic methods. OR54 in Edinburgh, UK, September 2012.
Mood disorders after acquired brain injury
Hina Patel
Thamer Altaim
Effects of patient education on the outcomes of bariatric surgery
Robert Akparibo
Hazel Squires
Chris Skedgel
Public preferences for the allocation of healthcare resources in a Canadian cancer context. Canadian
Applied Research Conference in Cancer Control. Montreal, Canada, May 2012.
Preferences of decision-making agents and the general public for the allocation of healthcare
resources. International Society for Priority Setting in Health Care 2012. Vancouver, Canada,
September 2012.
Shah, K., Tsuchiya, A., Risa Hole, A., and Wailoo, A. (2012) Valuing health at the end of life: A stated
preference discrete choice experiment. NICE Decision Support Unit report. Sheffield: Decision Support
Unit.
Smith, S.K. and Mountain, G.A. (2012) New forms of information and communication technology
(ICT) and the potential to facilitate social and leisure activity for people living with dementia. Int. J.
Computers in Healthcare, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.332-345.
Hazel Squires
Squires H, Chilcott J, Akehurst R, Burr J. Guidance for modellers for developing public health economic
models. 23rd November 2012. http://www.thelancet.com/ abstracts/public-health-science-in-the-uk
Lizzie Taylor Buck
Elizabeth Taylor Buck, Kim Dent-Brown, & Glenys Parry. (2012) Exploring a dyadic approach to art
psychotherapy with children and young people: A survey of British art psychotherapists. International
Journal of Art Therapy, 2012, 1 9, iFirst article.
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy. Published in British Association of Art Therapists Newsbriefing
November 2012.
Other Achievements
Sarah Smith
Poster presentation at The annual University of Leeds postgraduate research conference, December
2012 & White Rose Social Science DTC Annual Conference, May 2012. Touch-screen technology and
the potential to facilitate social and leisure activity for people living with Dementia.
James Fotheringham was awarded the Renal Association Clinical Science Prize.
Koonal Shah was awarded Outstanding Presentation by a Young Researcher by the Societal
for Medical Decision Making.