Past PhD projects within IEHC

Below is a list of PhD project titles that were previously completed by PhD students based within IEHC. We provide these simply to offer some examples to anyone who is looking to apply to the programme.

If you click on the titles listed below, you will be able to view the students name, their supervisors and an abstract. 

Applied Health Research

• Patient and public priorities regarding the organisation of emergency hospital care

• Bench to Bedside? Boundary Spanning in Academic Health Science Centres

• Economic Analysis of the Link between Advances in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing and Healthcare Delivery Costs

• Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in Southern Africa - exploring patterns, locating transmission

Behavioural Science and Health

• Development and evaluation of a smartphone app to reduce excessive alcohol consumption: Self-regulatory factor 

• Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in cervical screening

• The psychoneuroimmunology of music: modulation of psychological state, stress levels and immune response through participatory interventions

• The aetiology and modification of food preferences in early childhood

• Preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests

• The role of psychosocial wellbeing and biological stress processes in linking type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease

• Risks of future harm in adolescents hospitalised with violent, self-inflicted or drug/alcohol-related injury

• The aetiology of emotional eating in childhood

• Weight loss in overweight and obese older adults

• Promoting uptake of flexible sigmoidoscopy 'bowel scope' screening at St Mark's Hospital in London.

• Diet, nutrition and physical activity in endometrial cancer survivors

• Sleep, eating behaviour, and weight in early childhood

• Health Behaviour Change Among Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

• A cluster randomised trial of a brief tobacco cessation intervention in low income communities in India

• The Role of the Home Environment in Early Weight Trajectories

• Psychosocial factors and Cortisol sampled from Hair and Saliva

• The relationship between appetitive traits, dietary intake and weight gain in the Gemini cohort

• Development of a smoking cessation smartphone application for pregnant smokers focusing on the role of identity

• Novel approaches in adolescent obesity management

• Using 'gist-based' information to reduce inequalities and improve cancer screening uptake

Epidemiology and Public Health

• Determinants of sickness absence and early retirement intentions and the relationship between sickness absence and the risk of disability retirement or early retirement intentions in the Abu Dhabi Police

• The associations between risk-taking behaviours, peer influence and traumatic dental injuries among Saudi adolescents.

• Lifetime affective symptoms and mortality in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

• Metabolically healthy obesity: Associations with physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and metabolic declinefamilies: implications for family well-being and child development

• Gender, work and domestic practices in 21st century UK families: implications for family well-being and child development

• Quantifying the associations between diabetes mellitus, glycated haemoglobin and incidence of and mortality from cancer: analysis of longitudinal data from England and Scotland linked to Cancer Registry and mortality data
• The role of psychosocial wellbeing and biological stress processes in linking type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease

• Unemployment and health in the UK: Exploring psychobiological pathways

• Deaf people in Western Region, Kenya: language, community and HIV/AIDS

• CASP, a measure of quality of life in old age: evaluation of its psychometric properties and association with mortality. The HAPIEE study

• Mental stress, socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: integrating socioeconomic circumstances into the paradigm of psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology

• Genetic test feedback for risk of weight gain - motivational and behavioural effects

• Investigating the health of non-drinkers, the sick-quitter and sick non-starter hypotheses

• Virtual Field Trips as physically active lessons for children

• Adolescent drinking in Chile: the role of school socioeconomic environment in relation to parental and peer influences.

• Is Social Capital a Determinant of Oral health among Older Adults? An Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

• A comparative study of education and coronary heart disease risk in Great Britain: findings from three cohorts

• Using electronic health records to investigate blood biomarkers and onset of cardiovascular diseases: example of differential white cell count

• Dietary factors and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Eastern European cohorts

• The neighbourhood physical environment: Relationships with physical activity and depression in adults in the United Kingdom

• Marriage and physical capability at mid to later life

• Retirement, cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in China

• Preventing obesity by reducing soft drinks consumption among young people attending dental practices: a feasibility cluster RCT

Primary Care and Population Health

• The use of email and text message prompts to engage users of a digital intervention

• Patient and public engagement in UK medical education

• Exploring the effectiveness of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness

• Quality end of life care for people with dementia: The views and experiences of family carers

• Drug Use And Opioid Substitution Treatment In Pregnancy: Evidence From Electronic Health Records

• An exploration of therapist and dose effects within an exercise intervention study for reducing falls and falls risk factors in community dwelling older people

• Long-term outcomes and the effects of maintenance treatments in bipolar disorder

• A prospective cohort study to determine prognostic factors associated with outcomes in primary care attenders with unexplained physical symptoms

• The relationship of sensory impairments with cardiovascular disease and mortality, disability and frailty in older age: longitudinal cohort studies using the British Regional Heart Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

• Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy

• Development of an online self-management intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes (HeLP-Diabetes)

• The Contribution of General Practice Placements to Medical Education: An Analysis of the Construction of General Practice Placement Knowledge in Published Medical Education Research

• Developing and evaluating a plan to implement an online self-management programme for people with type 2 diabetes within routine healthcare

• Effectiveness of sitagliptin vs sulphonylureas for managing type 2 diabetes mellitus in clinical practice

• Implementation, evaluation and application of multiple imputation for missing data in longitudinal electronic health record research

• Early comorbid parental depression and its effects on child outcomes