The groundbreaking study by Felitti et al (1998) linking Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to ill health, adversity and trauma laid the foundation for a wide array of subsequent studies exploring the connections between childhood adversity, trauma... Read More about Inner strength or outer armour? Lived experiences of what supports health and wellbeing in young people who have experienced childhood adversity.
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Improving comfort for cancer patients receiving radiotherapy (2025)
Thesis
Radiotherapy involves ionising radiation targeted at malignant tissue over a course of 3 to 35 days; it is an effective treatment for cancer resulting in 40% of patients being cured. Patients are positioned to restrict motion and therapeutic radiogra... Read More about Improving comfort for cancer patients receiving radiotherapy.
Parental engagement with complementary feeding information and their information-seeking behaviours in the United Kingdom (2025)
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Background - Complementary feeding describes the transition from milk to family foods from around six months until two years of age. Parents often seek information about complementary feeding to guide their feeding behaviours.
Aims - To explore ho... Read More about Parental engagement with complementary feeding information and their information-seeking behaviours in the United Kingdom.
Supporting adults with a learning disability to make health decisions (2025)
Thesis
People with learning disabilities have historically been denied opportunities to make decisions about all aspects of their life, including their health. They are likely to have increased health needs yet often have poor healthcare experiences and out... Read More about Supporting adults with a learning disability to make health decisions.
An exploration of community development initiatives as a tool for promoting social connectedness (2024)
Thesis
This thesis includes the submission of six published journal articles with accompanying critical commentaries, in accordance with the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)’s regulations for DPhil degrees. The submitted body of work provides... Read More about An exploration of community development initiatives as a tool for promoting social connectedness.
This study explored how social workers working within one English NHS trust understood the impact of the social determinants of mental health, and mental health inequalities, on the experiences of service users. The study used the concept of the soci... Read More about Social work, the sociological imagination and the social determinants of mental health: A study of mental health social work practice in multi-disciplinary settings.
The use of Mechanical Insufflation Exsufflation to prevent extubation failure in adult intensive care (2024)
Thesis
Introduction
A failed attempt to remove artificial ventilatory support in intensive care is associated with increased length of stay, impaired quality of life and higher mortality. One cause of this failure, secretion retention, results from poor co... Read More about The use of Mechanical Insufflation Exsufflation to prevent extubation failure in adult intensive care.
Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England (2024)
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Housing may be the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Despite substantial evidence showing which features of housing are beneficial or detrimental to health, too often people are living in homes which have... Read More about Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England.
An evaluation of blood transfusion service in Saudi Arabia (2024)
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Background: Blood transfusion is needed to support the care given to many medical and surgical patients, and can reduce morbidity and mortality. The blood transfusion service (BTS) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is hospital-based. This study ai... Read More about An evaluation of blood transfusion service in Saudi Arabia.
Strategies used by autistic adults to improve wellbeing: An exploratory mixed methods study in the UK (2024)
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The wellbeing of autistic adults has been largely ignored in the literature, but recently, neurodiversity-informed researchers have begun to ask autistic adults to define their experiences, needs, and self-managed strategies to improve and maintain t... Read More about Strategies used by autistic adults to improve wellbeing: An exploratory mixed methods study in the UK.
According to NHS Wales, compassion is one of the core values of health care (Wales.nhs.uk, 2020) and can be defined as the emotional response to another’s pain or suffering, involving an authentic desire to help (Goetz et al., 2010). Caring for the h... Read More about The nuance of compassion: An exploration using reflexive thematic analysis of how NHS staff working in Older Person’s Mental Health talk about their experience and understanding of compassion.
Living well with pain while seeing an osteopath: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2023)
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Background: In the United Kingdom 8 million people are living with chronic pain and health practitioners are encouraged to move towards a biopsychosocial framework to account for the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with pain. T... Read More about Living well with pain while seeing an osteopath: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Characteristics of fixation in infantile nystagmus (2023)
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Infantile nystagmus (IN) oscillations are known to be multiplanar in some cases however, eye movement assessment for treatment strategies are often done in one plane. Common forms of treatment include maximizing the patients preferred gaze and/or con... Read More about Characteristics of fixation in infantile nystagmus.
Understanding the factors that drive subsequent healthcare resource use in patients who have presented to UK Emergency Departments (EDs) with acute headache, has potential patient and health system benefits. It is important that clinicians provide th... Read More about Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache.
The experiences of rock climbing for male British veterans living with combat trauma: An IPA study (2023)
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Background: Soldiers are at risk of exposure to combat trauma and experience high rates of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Stevelink et al., 2018). However, several issues currently exist with the first-line psychological tr... Read More about The experiences of rock climbing for male British veterans living with combat trauma: An IPA study.
The impact of participatory budgeting on health and well-being: a qualitative case study of a deprived community in London (2023)
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Background
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic innovation that enables residents to participate directly and collectively decide how to spend public money in their community. Research demonstrates PB improves social well-being through gove... Read More about The impact of participatory budgeting on health and well-being: a qualitative case study of a deprived community in London.
Neural networks underlying essential tremor (2021)
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Essential Tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder, causing a postural or kinetic tremor, and has an unknown aetiology. Accumulating evidence suggests abnormalities occurring within cerebellar circuits underlie the pathogenesis of ET, resulting in a... Read More about Neural networks underlying essential tremor.