Social Scientists in Health

Research students

Name NATALIE MOFFAT
Degree PhD
Title Reusable menstrual products in practice: exploring the material-discursive mattering of menstrual care
Supervisors Jo Ferrie, Karen Cuthbert
Funding ESRC (+3) studentship
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2026

Name NICHELLE SANTAGATA
Degree
PhD
Title 
Black Women's Mental Health and Healing Through Autoethnography and Arts-Based Methods
Supervisors 
Giovanni Picker, Jude Robinson
Start year 
2020
Intended finish year 
2025

Name ANDREA ST. HILAIRE
Degree PhD
Title Exploring the moral experiences of seriously ill young people
Supervisors Marian Krawczyk, Alexander Whitelaw, Mary Ellen MacDonald (Dalhousie)
Funding Self Funded
Start year 2020
Intended finish year 2025

Name HUI WANG
Degree PhD
Title Teaching critical thinking in universities: Comparing China with the West
Supervisors Stuart Hanscomb, Marian Krawczyk
Funding Self Funded
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2025

Name EILIDH BOWIE
Degree PhD
Title The horror of the good death: Narratives of death in horror, post-1970
Supervisors Gavin Miller, Timothy Jones (Stirling), Marian Krawczyk
Funding Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2027

Name ANNA FORMSTONE
Degree PhD
Title Exploring and enhancing the implementation of rabies surveillance interventions using a systems mapping approach
Supervisors Nai Rui Chng, Katie Hampson, Peter Craig
Funding MRC/UKRI
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2026

Name MARIA IZZO
Degree PhD
Title Who cares for the carers? Negotiating transnational social protection among older Ukrainian care workers in Italy
Supervisors Alistair Hunter, Sara Bernard
Funding College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2025

Name AFNAN ALAQL
Degree PhD
Title Exploration of the social and psychological challenges faced by men and women after divorce: A gender and age-based comparison in Saudi Arabia
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Thees Spreckelsen
Funding Saudi Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026

Name TSION AFEWORK HABTE
Degree PhD
Title Exploring gendered mental health issues in a One Health context with a pastoralist community in the Afar region of Ethiopia
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Diego Maria Malara, Sarah Cleaveland
Funding CoSS PhD Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026

Name TASMIN ALEXANDER
Degree PhD
Title The ecology of infectious disease with focus on rabies
Supervisors Katie Hampson, Sarah Cleaveland, Nicholas Hanley, Nai Rui Chng
Funding James McCune Smith Scholarship
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026

Name YUANTAO HUANG
Degree PhD
Title Qualitative Research in Health Technology Assessment: Advancing Methods and Applications
Supervisors Evi Germeni, Sharon Greenwood
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026

Name AHMED NUR MUSE
Degree PhD
Title Social determinants of health: understanding factors affecting access to maternal and child healthcare services by nomads in Somaliland
Supervisors Alicia Davis, Jude Robinson
Funding CoSS Fee Waiver and Moyes Foundation (Stipend)
Start year 2022
Intended finish year 2026

Name CRAIG HOUSTON
Degree PhD
Title Places, spaces and relationships
Supervisors Avril Johnstone, Helen Minnis
Funding MRC
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2027

Name HAO LI
Degree PhD
Title Evaluating the gender-based health inequalities in the post-industrial French department: Pas-de-Calais
Supervisors Gerry McCartney, Stephanie Chambers
Funding self-funded
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name HANOUF ALQURASHI
Degree PhD
Title An international comparison of the integration dynamics of International Medical Graduates
Supervisors Alistair Hunter, Kate O’Donnell
Funding The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name BOSCO EXSON CHINKONDA
Degree PhD
Title Ulongo wa Wandu ni Mbwaa: A Posthumanist Reflection on Community Participation in Rabies Control in Balaka, Malawi
Supervisors Mia Perry, Nai Rui Chng, Katie Hampson
Funding Norwegian Veterinary Institute and School of Education PhD tuition fee waiver
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name CASSANDRA LIPPERT
Degree PhD
Title Precarity and Hidden Intersectionality: Rethinking Decent Work through Filipino Nurses in the UK
Supervisors Rosalind Searle, Andrew Cumbers and Scott Hurrell
Funding College of Social Sciences (CoSS) PhD Scholarship 
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name HAYA S M A MALALLAH
Degree PhD
Title Childhood obesity in the digital era
Supervisors Anne Martin
Funding Kuwait Government
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name YUSUFF ADEBAYO ADEBISI
Degree PhD
Title Intellectual and Physical Disability, Household Living Arrangements, and COVID-19 Outcomes in Scotland: A Population-Based Study Using Linked Administrative Data
Supervisors Nick Bailey, Serena Pattaro, Angela Henderson, Chris Dibben
Funding UKRI ESRC (via the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science – SSGSS)
Start Year 2023
Intended Finish Year 2027

Name HANOUF ALQURASHI
Degree PhD Health and Social Policy
Title Integration dynamics of International Medical Graduates
Supervisors Alistair Hunter, Kate O’Donnell
Funding The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2027

Name EILIDH ANDERSON
Degree PhD in Sociology
Title The Long Haul: A Body Mapping Study Investigating the Legislative Gaps for Carers Living and Working with Long Covid
Supervisors Christopher Bunn, Nicola Burns and Mindy Ptolomey
Funding SGSSS Student-led Studentship, ESRC funded
Start Year 2023
Intended Finish Year 2027

Name KASSANDRA MOOSBRUGGER
Degree PhD
Title Future pathways towards sustainable cycling transitions in Glasgow: The gender gap and mobility justice
Supervisors Cindy Gray, Emma Lawlor, Jason Gill, Ria Dunkley
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name NOVATUS TESHA
Degree PhD
Title Cost-effectiveness of Cervical Cancer HPV DNA Self-sampling Screening in Low Resource Setting
Supervisors Claudia Geue, Eleanor Grieve, Cindy Gray
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name CELESTE WILLIAMS
Degree PhD
Title Ethical Parenthood: An exploration of French and British non-binary people’s reproductive decisions and their ethical dimensions
Supervisors Lucy Pickering, Kristina Saunders
Funding College of Social Sciences
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2026

Name ANTON SODERQVIST
Degree PhD
Title Novel energy harvesting to promote active travel
Supervisors Gioia Falcone, Graeme Hunt, Cindy Gray, Kevin Worrall
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2027

Name MANON MINASSIAN
Degree PhD: Politics & International Relations
Title Transnational Care in the Wake of Armed Resistance: The Case of Western Sahara’s Refugees
Supervisors Naomi Head, Hannah-Louise Clark, Sophia Dingli, Corey Ranford-Robinson
Funding CoSS
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2027

Name SHONA SHINWELL
Degree PhD 
Title Health outcomes for mothers who use opioids in pregnancy in the three years postbirth
Supervisors Louise Marryat, Julie Langan-Martin, Sharon Greenwood
Funding SGSSS
Start year 2023
Intended finish year 2027

Name MOHAMMED IBRAHIM A FAKEEH
Degree PhD
Title Modifiable Factors Susceptible to Health Promotion (Smoking; obesity), Biomarkers of Health, and Lifestyle Change; Health Education Program
Supervisors Donald Lyall, Sharon Greenwood, Jordan Canning
Start year 2024
Finish year 2027

Name ASHUTOSH SINGH
Degree PhD
Title Menstrual Health and Hygiene in the Face of Climate Adversities: A Qualitative Study in Flood-Prone Communities in Bihar, India
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Benjamin Hunter
Funding College of Social Sciences
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name ILANA MCQUILLAN BOOTH
Degree Public health PhD
Title The intersection of female gender, Adverse Childhood Experiences and childhood low-income-highlighting the health experiences of multiply disadvantaged women in Scotland and exploring potential policy action
Supervisors Petra Meier, Clementine Hill O’Connor & Andreas Hoehn
Funding Policy Modelling for Health (HealthMod) project 
Start Year 2024
Intended Finish Year 2027

Name RUAIRIDH SMITH
Degree PhD Social and Public Policy
Title These Islands: Austerity and Life Expectancy in Britain and the Republic of Ireland
Supervisors Gerry McCartney, David Walsh, Will Ball
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name ROXANA POLLACK
Degree PhD: Social epidemiology
Title Employment transitions, job quality and their effect on health outcomes
Supervisors Vittal Katikireddi, Anna Pearce, Daniel Kopasker
Funding MRC
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name PRAISE ADEOLU ADEYEMO
Degree PhD
Title How can policy influence the adoption and uptake of cost-effective schistosomiasis interventions in Uganda
Supervisors Poppy Lamberton, Sergi Alonso, Nai Rui Chng
Funding ERC Consolidator to PHLL
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2028

Name AMBROSE MCMONAGLE
Degree PhD
Title Containment, Cure and Crip Futurity: Understanding Ableism as Normative Violence
Supervisors Phillippa Wiseman, Caitlin Gormley
Funding ESRC
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name ASMA UL HUSNA 
Degree PhD in Sociology 
Title Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young Girls Affected by Salinity Intrusion in Coastal Bangladesh
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Alicia Davis 
Funding Self-Funding 
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name HANNA HAILE
Degree PhD Social and Public Health
Title Exploring the urban food environment in Ethiopia and its influence on individuals’ food choice and dietary behaviour
Supervisors Diego Malara, Jude Robinson, Stephanie Chambers
Funding James McCune Smith Scholarship
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2028

Name CHUQIAO LIU
Degree PhD
Title Aspiration: a visual ethnography of Chinese transnational marriage migrant women
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Francesca Stella
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name LAZAARO MUJUMBUSI
Degree PhD
Title Understanding the lived experience of people in settings where lack of adequate WASH drives infectious disease transmission in Uganda and Cameroon
Supervisors Poppy Lamberton, Lucy Pickering
Funding ERC
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name RUT ROSINA RIWU
Degree PhD
Title Use of Modern Conceptive Methods in Indonesia
Supervisors Fred Ho, Sharon Greenwood, Cindy Gray
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name XU WANG
Degree PhD
Title Stay-at-home fathers: An Intersectional Exploration of Changing Family Relationships in Contemporary China
Supervisors Jude Robinson, Marta Moskal
Start year 2024
Intended finish year 2027

Name VHAIRI WILDE
Degree PhD
Title Bleeding in Rural Scottish Communities: An Ethnographic Exploration of Intergenerational Menstrual Experiences in Rural Scotland
Supervisors Phillippa Wiseman, Lucy Pickering
Funding ESRC
Start year 2025
Intended finish year 2028

Name EILEEN MATHER
Degree PhD Dentistry
Title Reducing oral health inequalities: Improving participation of children with intellectual disabilities in Childsmile's supervised toothbrushing programme and the National Dental Inspection Programme
Supervisors Marie Murphy, Stephanie Chambers, Andrea Sherriff, David Conway, Deborah Cairns, Stefan Serban
Funding MVLS Futures Studentship
Start year 2025
Intended finish year 2030

Name CAMILLE BARKER
Degree PhD
Title Empowering community through One Health education: Increasing sustainability of rabies surveillance programs through co-produced curriculum
Supervisors Mia Perry, Katie Hampson, Nai Rui Chng
Funding CoSS Scholarship
Start year 2025
Intended finish year 2028

Completed students (2013 onwards) with links to theses

Name SUSIE SMILLIE
Degree 
PhD
Year of award
2026
"You need to have a break": exploring young people's experiences of wellbeing, leisure and creativity in the school holidays

Name AHMAD BINMAHFOZ
Degree PhD
Year of award 2025
Development of a home based resistance exercise programme for muscle strength and function during weight loss

Name MARIA BISSETT
Degree
 PhD
Year of award 2025
Development of a transcultural arts-based participatory approach to exploring the drivers of noncommunicable diseases among Black communities in Scotland and Malawi

Name HESHAM ALFEHEID
Degree 
PhD
Year of award 
2025
Health and lifestyle among office and construction workers: insights to forming future intervention strategies

Name LOUISE LAWSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2025
Community regeneration in Glasgow: perspectives of poverty and power

Name MARIA FERNANDA GABLER TRISOTTI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2025 
Effects of home-based resistance exercise programmes on muscle fitness, well-being, thoughts and perceptions of healthy adults

Name ACKSON TYSON MWALE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2025
Developing a one health approach to the management of trypanosomiasis across communities and the vet, conservation, and medical sectors in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia

Name SIQI QIAO
Degree PhD
Year of award 2025
On health inequality in the past and present 

Name REBECCA TOTTERDELL
Degree PhD
Year of award 2025
Addressing challenges in food allergy and anaphylaxis preparedness in Scottish schools

Name SABREEN BATARFI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
The Feasibility of Implementing Asset-Based Approaches to Health in Saudi Rural Communities

Name OLIVER TRAYNOR
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
Evaluating the provision of Glasgow’s outdoor nature-based early learning and childcare for children’s health and wellbeing

Name MO AL-HADDAD
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
Acculturation and social connections of International Medical Graduates

Name JOSEF BROWN
Degree PhD (part time)
Year of award 2024
An ethnographic exploration of the everyday lives of 51 heroin-using people in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Name HAMISH FOSTER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
Understanding the interplay of lifestyle and deprivation to support policy and intervention development: a mixed methods study

Name DAVID ANDREW ROSS
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
An exploration of gender differences in risk factors for mental ill health and functional capability in UK army personnel - A through life approach

Name GILLIAN STEWART
Degree PhD in Social and Public Health
Year of award 2024
Urban health inequalities and socioeconomic conditions in Glasgow, Manchester and Nancy, 1850-1950

Name PAUL PEARSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
‘What are we going to do’: Biographical disruption after brain injury and the role of human rights as a catalyst for change

Name AMANDA PTOLOMEY 
Degree PhD
Year of award 2024
Disabled girls: doing, being, becoming

Name ALESSIO ALBANESE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
Exploring the mental health and psychosocial experiences of asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants in the post-migration context

Name CATHERINE SWEDBERG
Degree PhD
Year of award 2023
An intersectoral approach to enhance surveillance and guide rabies control and elimination programs

Name MARTIN ANDERSON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Recovery, relationships and identity: a mixed methods process evaluation of the formation of a therapeutic community

Name KATHRYN MACHRAY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Food insecurity among single men in Scotland: a qualitative investigation

Name SUZAN TRIENEKENS
Degree PhD
Year of award 2022
Water is life: schistosoma mansoni (re) infection risk and water contact behaviour among school-aged children in a persistent high endemicity area

Name PHALLON BLESSING MWABA
Degree
PhD
Year of award
2022
Intervening on hypertension in Zambia: development of a culturally sensitized lifestyle programme to reduce disease incidence in urban areas

Name ANTHONY MUCHAI MANYARA
Degree PhD
Year of award
2022
Understanding the aetiology of type 2 diabetes and the perceptions of diabetes risk in Nairobi, Kenya

Name ROBIN IRELAND
Degree
PhD
Year of award
2021
Commercial determinants of health in sport. The example of the English Premier League

Name LAUREN WHITE
Degree
PhD
Year of award
2020
Understanding the policy and public debate surrounding the regulation of online advertising of high in fat, sugar and salt food and beverages to children

Name KAREN YOUNG
Degree PhD 
Year of award 2020
Where is the person in personalisation? Experiences of people with learning disabilities and their families in Glasgow

Name SHEELA TRIPATHEE
Degree
PhD
Year of award
2019
Together through thick and thin: Cohabiting partners’ reciprocal influence during men’s attempts to change their dietary practices and physical activity to lose weight and maintain weight loss 

Name TIAGO CARLOS ZORTEA 
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Attachment as a psychological diathesis for suicide risk

Name CLAIRE MCCALLUM
Degree PhD
Year of award 2019
Evaluating the impact of physical activity apps and wearables: an interdisciplinary investigation of research designs and methods

Name ANNA BEESLEY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
'They don't yet know that life is going to be hell': Tracing distress through the UK asylum process

Name IAIN SMITH
Degree 
MD
Year of award 2018
Doctoring in a whisky-injured nation: The medical response to the "alcohol question" in Scotland, 1855-1925 

Name BERNARD MCNALLY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2018
After the financial crash of 2008, how will the UK’s welfare to work policies affect the attitude of Scottish private sector employers towards hiring jobless people who have been disabled by mental illness?

Name JENNY SPEIRS
Degree 
MPhil(R)
Year of award
2017
How do LGBTQ+ youth build liveable lives?

Name CAITLIN GORMLEY
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
Prison, power, and people with learning disabilities: the complexities of curtailed lives

Name SHARON BYRNE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
The development and evaluation of a mindfulness-based intervention for incarcerated young men

Name KAINDE MANJI
Degree: 
PhD
Year of award 2017
Conditionality, surveillance, and citizenship: examining the impacts of the 2010–2015 Coalition Government’s welfare reform program on disabled people living in Scotland

Name MARK GALLAGHER
Degree 
PhD
Year of award 2017
From mental patient to service user: deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of the Mental Health Service User Movement in Scotland, 1971–2006

Name AMAL ELRAMLI
Degree PhD
Year of award 2017
Effectiveness of community based physical activity on step count and sedentary behaviour in people with rheumatoid arthritis within the first five years of diagnosis

Name BREANNON BABBEL
Degree
 PhD
Year of award 2016
Tackling health inequalities in primary care: an exploration of GPs’ experience at the frontline 

Name ANNA CUNNINGHAM
Degree
 PhD
Year of award 2016
Volunteering for the Commonwealth Games: what can realist synthesis contribute to health policy making?

Name ZARA KOHNER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Shadows of militarism: an ethnography of trauma and resistance among soldiers and veterans in post-9/11 USA

Name DEBORAH MORRISON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Supporting self-management: development and evaluation of a digital resource for adults with asthma

Name MAUREEN KIDD
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
"Expanding Horizons": investigating the Glasgow 2014 legacy for young people in the East End of Glasgow 

Name NICK SHARRER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
The impact of social housing on health in Glasgow and Baltimore, 1930-1980

Name CRAIG DONNACHIE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Men's experiences of receiving objective feedback on physical activity and other indicators of health risk, within the context of a gender-sensitised weight loss intervention

Name HILARY STEWART
Degree 
PhD
Year of award 2016
Towards a Bourdieusian analysis of the disabled body and practice: embodying negative symbolic capitals and the uneasy experience of hysteresis

Name STEVE ROLFE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2016
Assessing the impacts of community participation policy and practice in Scotland and England

Name SARAH ANNESLEY
Degree PhD (University of Stirling)
Year of award 2015
A qualitative study of policy and action: How the Scottish Government has implemented self-management support for people with long-term conditions 

Name RICHARD BRUNNER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2015
Surviving, thriving and being outside: applying the capabilities approach to reconceptualise the social justice experiences of people with mental distress 

Name MARTHA KIRBY
Degree
 PhD
Year of award 2015
Too much of a good thing? Weight management, obesity, and the healthy body in Britain, 1950–1995

Name KENNETH MACAULAY
Degree MD
Year of award 2015
Birth control knowledge: Scotland, 1900–1975 

Name HEATHER WARDLE
Degree PhD
Year of award 2015
New applications of expansive empirical sociology: understanding the relationship between gambling behaviour, social environment and risk

Name SARA DENVER
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Experiences of developing cancer and palliative care services in one community in North West England 1976-2000: an oral history and documentary reconstruction 

Name AIZAN AMIN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Disability and gender in the global South: the lived experiences of disabled women in Malaysia 

Name SEUMAS BATES
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
"Just another hurricane": the lived experience of everyday life in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill 

Name HAZEL MORRISON
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Unearthing the "clinical encounter": Gartnavel Mental Hospital, 1921-1932. Exploring the intersection of scientific and social discourses which negotiated the boundaries of psychiatric diagnoses

Name PHILIPPA WISEMAN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
Reconciling the "Private" and "Public": disabled young people’s experiences of everyday embodied citizenship

Name ALEXANDER POLLOCK
Degree MD
Year of award 2014 
From dyspepsia to Helicobacter: a history of peptic ulcer disease

Name KIM ROSS
Degree PhD
Year of award 2014
The locational history of Scotland's district lunatic asylums, 1857-1913

Name SALLY BOA
Degree PhD (University of Stirling)
Year of award 2013
The development and evaluation of a Goal setting and Action Planning framework for use in Palliative Care (G-AP PC) 

Name FILIPPO TREVISAN
Degree PhD
Year of award 2013
Connected citizens or digital isolation? Online disability activism in times of crisis