Staff profiles
Doctoral students
Current doctoral students with supervisory arrangements with the Centre for Health and Social Care Research.
John Barraclough
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Supervisors: Professor Nicola Woodroofe, Cathy Hill
Background and professional interests: Specialist biomedical scientist
Interests: Haemostasis, platelets, anticoagulant therapy, haematology
Current focus of doctoral work: Dosing regimes for oral anticoagulant therapy
John Xerri de Caro
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Supervisors: Dr Marilyn Kirshbaum
Background and professional interests: Physiotherapy, education
Current focus of doctoral work: Influences of the Bologna Process on Physiotherapy Educational Processes
Yung Chieh Ching
Degree: PhD
Supervisors: Professor Gail Mountain, Professor Frances Gordon
Background and professional interests: Psychiatric nurse, mental health service provision
Current focus of doctoral work: Mental health service in Taiwan
Angela Eddy
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Professional and academic background: I am a therapy radiographer who qualified 25 years ago. I worked clinically for 18 years in a number of roles (senior roles through to superintendent) in a large teaching hospital, and then a smaller rural based department. I moved to Sheffield Hallam to the Radiotherapy and Oncology teaching team in 2001 where I am course leader for the MSc in advanced practice (and module leader for various modules across the CPD provision). My academic background is Diploma of the College of Radiographers, PgC in Management. MSc in Radiotherapy and Oncology,
Professional interests: I am interested in all oncology issues, in particular workforce development aspects.
Research topic/title: 'How was it for you? Experiences of therapy radiographers in extended roles'
I want to explore therapy radiographer's experiences and perceptions of working in extended roles. The specific research questions are
- what are the emerging issues, and subsequent perspectives of therapy radiographers who work within extended roles?
- how do contextual factors influence role and practice development?
Sub questions may be
- how, and in what ways, do personal professional and workplace issues impact on professional development?
- how, and in what ways do personal professional and workplace issues impact on practice development?
Methodology: A constructivist grounded theory approach using interviews, will be used to develop a substantive theory which explicates how role extension can be successfully enabled for therapy radiographers. Theoretical sampling will be used and the interview data will be analysed using a constant comparative method with open, axial and selective coding.
Colette Fegan
Professional and academic background: I am a lecturer in the occupational therapy team at Sheffield Hallam University and have been in the team since 2001. I have had a number of roles within the team including course leader for the MSc Vocational Rehabilitation. Prior to working in the University I have worked in both acute and community mental health settings and in 2000 I completed an MSc Psychosocial Interventions.
Professional interests: I have an interest in how mental health service users can be supported to achieve their work aspirations and engage in meaningful occupations. I also have an interest in Recovery models, groupwork and service user expertise.
Research topic/title: Transformation and Recovery - what is the impact of volunteering? Phase 1 of my study involved research and evaluation into a supported volunteering service hosted by a local Trust. Service user volunteers and staff mentors were interviewed about their experiences. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach further research through theoretical sampling will allow me to explore further volunteering and its relevance for mental health services users. This will form phase 2 of my study.
Patricia Foster
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Supervisors: Professor Frances Gordon, Professor Ranald Macdonald (Education Research Network)
Background and professional interests: Flexible and work based learning within higher education, partnership working.
Current focus of doctoral work: Experiential learning and the experiences of professional doctorate students
Rungkarn Inthawong
rungkarn.inthawong@student.shu.ac.uk
Supervisor: Professor Malcolm David Whitfield
Academic background: BSc Public Health (major in community health),
MSc Public Health (major in infectious diseases and epidemiology)
Mahidol University, Thailand
Work experience: I have been working as an epidemiologist at the National Health Examination Survey Office at the Health System Research Institute in Thailand for three years.
My recent work includes the survey, data management, data analysis and editorial assistance for the national health examination survey IV (2008-2009). I focused on the health status of the labour force (15-59 years old) and elderly (60 and over) in the Thai population, looking at risk factors like • chronic diseases • cardiovascular disease • reproductive health • physical activities • alcohol consumption • smoking • nutritional status.
Current focus of doctoral work: My PhD research is investigating the effects of multiple risk reduction on the burden of cardiovascular diseases in Thailand. I aim to predict the future prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and estimate the economic burden of reducing the major multiple risk factors such as • hypertension • obesity • diabetes • hypercholesterolemia • smoking.
This study integrates epidemiology, mathematics and health economics. I hope it will provide useful information to help policy-makers plan and invest in prevention programmes for cardiovascular diseases.
Janet Kay
Supervisors: Dr Anne Hollows, Janet Empson
Background and professional interests: Social care work with children and families, child protection, children looked after and children in need, adoption.
Current focus of doctoral work: Parenting in sibling adoption
Lynn Kenyon
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Supervisor: Professor Frances Gordon
Background: Community nursing and education
Focus: Not yet determined - current ideas in the areas of workforce issues / public health
Daniel Lawrence
Degree: PhD
My PhD is in health-related biomechanics. My passion lies in injury prevention, and therefore the primary aim of the PhD is to investigate and identify the mechanics of balance recovery i.e. how do we prevent ourselves from falling when a loss of balance occurs as a result of tripping over an obstacle or slipping on an icy surface. More specifically I am interested in how we use our upper body to maintain balance as a result of slipping on a contaminated surface i.e. how we use our arms and rotate our trunk to stop ourselves from falling.
The main application of my results is to the elderly population, as falls in the elderly is a continuing problem which has been well documented. By understanding more about the way we recover balance, I hope that my results will be applicable to practices used by health professionals, to make alterations/additions to fall prevention interventions.
Catherine Makison
Supervisors: Dr Marilyn Kirshbaum, Professor Nicola Woodroofe (Biomedical Research Centre)
Background and professional interests: Microbiology and infection control
Current focus of doctoral work: Infection control
Alex Morley
Degree: PhD
Supervisors: Professor Sue Mawson, Dr Angela Tod, Mary Cramp (UEL)
Background and professional interests: Physiotherapy background specialising in neurology. My MSc work was looking at pelvic control in sitting in normals. I have undertaken research into muscle changes following traumatic brain injury. My professional interest is in neurological rehabilitation.
Current focus of doctoral work: My PhD is investigating spasticity and its physiotherapy treatment in people with multiple sclerosis
Ray Poll
Project title: A mixed-method study explaining
non-attendance at drug service hepatitis C outreach clinics:
perspectives of clients and staff.
Director of studies: Peter Allmark
Supervisors: DoS and Angela Tod
Expected completion date: May 2014
Outline of research project: This research project is in two parts.
The first part of the project will be to explore using telephone interviews the experiences
and reasons for clients missing an appointment with the hepatitis C outreach clinic
in Sheffield drug treatment services. The findings from the interviews will be used
to inform the development of a survey to health professionals running drug
service hepatitis C outreach clinics throughout England.
Thus, in the second phase of the project an electronic survey will be sent to health professionals to
- identify models of hepatitis C outreach clinics within drug services, including data on the number of patients seen, frequency of the clinic, and the number of and level of staff employed
- find out if and to what extent, these outreach clinics experience problems with non-attendance
- see whether themes explaining non-attendance from the client interviews run through the experiences of health professionals providing outreach clinics
- find out if and what measures have been undertaken, whether any evaluation of these has been conducted and their evidence of success in reducing non-attendance.
If the reasons why patients do not attend hepatitis C outreach clinics both locally and throughout England were known, a possible solution(s) could be identified to help inform local and national strategy, and improve attendance.
Katherine Poole
Supervisors: Cathy Hill, Professor Nicola Woodroofe (Biomedical Research Centre)
Background and professional interests: NHS Clinical Scientist, transplantation
Current focus of doctoral work: Renal transplantation/haemopoietic stem cell transplantation
Caroline Rhodes
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Supervisors: Dr Anne Hollows, Professor Paul Senior (Hallam Centre for Community Justice)
Background and professional interests: Social work and child protection
Current focus of doctoral work: Decision making when allegations of abuse are made against people who work with children
Angela Sherridan
Supervisors: Professor Mavis Kirkham
Background and professional interests: Midwife, breastfeeding research, infant feeding and family networks
Current focus of doctoral work: Qualitative research around women's experience of being a breastfeeding peer supporter
Paul Sykes
Supervisors: Professor Mark Doel, Dr Pat Schofield (Aberdeen), Dr Tony Ryan, Dr Denis Martin (Tyneside)
Background and professional interests: Registered nurse, MA in Social Policy Research, clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry, older adults, chronic pain, support groups
Current focus of doctoral work: Ethnographic study of chronic pain suppport groups and the narratives of older adult members
Lesley Taylor
Supervisors: Professor Mavis Kirkham, Dr Anne Hollows
Background and professional interests: I have a Master of Arts degree from Loughborough University and I am involved with the National Childbirth Trust as a breastfeeding counsellor and tutor.
Current focus of doctoral work: Current focus involves an internet survey and an active research group, which will result in a longitudinal comparative study considering the effects of premature birth upon the mother.
Christine Whitney-Cooper
Supervisors: Kay Phillips (Centre for Professional and Organisation Development), Professor Frances Gordon
Background and professional interests: Nursing
Current focus of doctoral work: Using action research in organisational change
Mark Williams
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Supervisors: Professor Nicola Woodroofe (Biomedical Research Centre), Dr Hora Soltani
Background and professional interests: Biomedical scientist working in blood transfusion, reference serology
Current focus of doctoral work: The effect of anti-D immunoglobulin on plasma cytokine levels
