Currently registered PhD students

Adejumoke Awosanya

Adejumoke’s research is to examine attitudes, awareness and knowledge of autism among Nigerians and identify theoretical explanatory drivers of autism stigma in Nigeria and create a theoretical model that explains the relationships between autism stigma and theoretical drivers.

Anand Sivasankara Kurup

The aim of Anand’s study is to explore equity in access to institutional childbirth in India using the social determinants of health framework, based on the case of Odisha state in India.

Ayodele Abike Ayeni

Ayo’s research is assessing the relationship between social vulnerability and frailty with a focus on investigating weather social vulnerability is a risk factor for frailty among community dwelling older people in England using a secondary data analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Britzer Paul Vincent Paul Raj

Britzer’s study will further build on the research gap identified to understand on how two regions with varied performance behave, from the philosophical paradigm of social constructivism and that the place or group where they live in is influenced by the socio-ecological model.

Publications

• Vincent, B.P., Kumar, G., Parameswaran, S. and Kar, S.S., 2019. Barriers and suggestions towards deceased organ donation in a government tertiary care teaching hospital: Qualitative study using socio-ecological model framework. Indian Journal of Transplantation, 13(3), p.194.
• Vincent, B.P., Kumar, G., Parameswaran, S. and Kar, S.S., 2019. Knowledge, attitude, and perception on organ donation among undergraduate medical and nursing students at a tertiary care teaching hospital in the southern part of India: A cross-sectional study. Journal of education and health promotion, 8.
• Alex, A., Shroff, S., Vincent, B.P., Navin, S., Ramesh, P., Michael, J. and Menon, S., 2019. Did an increase in knowledge and awareness about organ donation improve organ donation rate in India over the past two decades? Indian Journal of Transplantation, 13(3), p.173.

Fani Liapi

Fani’s study explores barriers and facilitators associated with the implementation of integrated care, taking a whole system approach. The research study focuses on understanding service providers’ and user’s experiences on the integration of services, provided by Total Wellbeing Luton.

Georgina Constantinou

The aim of Georgina’s study is to explore the needs of children and their families using a Specialist Paediatric Palliative Care Service, to determine whether or not these needs are being met and how to improve these services and their access.

Poster

Children's palliative care: An exploration of the unmet needs of children and their families.

Ijeoma Confidence Okpechi

Ijeoma’s research is to evaluate the views of healthcare practitioners to determine the knowledge and attitude, adoption of current guidelines and the implementation challenges to frailty screening in primary care within the eastern region of England.

Conference Presentation

Delivered a presentation on the research topic at the University Winter Research Conference in 2018.

Lesley-Anne Tanhamira

The aim of Lesley-Anne’s is to assess whether a remotely delivered mind-body physical activity intervention can impact on physical functioning, quality of life and wellbeing in older people.

Conference Paper

Remotely-delivered mind-body physical activity improves physical function in older adults. Published in The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health in 2021. sciforum.net/paper/view/9095

Musa Ibrahim

The aim of Musa’s study is to identify and utilise existing risk models to predict MetS in midlife using the 1958 British birth cohort data.

Nimra Khan

The aim of Nimra’s study is to evaluate the framework of frailty in Luton.

Publications

• Khan, N.N. and Puthussery, S., 2019. Stakeholder perspectives on public-private partnership in health service delivery in Sindh province of Pakistan: A qualitative study. Public health, 170, pp.1-9.
• Uzair, B., Bano, A., Niazi, M.B.K., Khan, F., Habiba, U., Khan, N.N. and Khan, B..A., 2018. In vitro antifungal activity of 9, 10-dihydrophenanthrene-2-carboxylic acid isolated from a marine bacterium: Pseudomonas putida. J. Pharm. Sci, 31(6), pp.2733-2736.

Valencia Kabeya

The overall aim of Valencia’s research is to develop and assess the feasibility, acceptability and fidelity of a Health Party intervention in increasing knowledge, awareness and uptake of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer amongst Black African women in Luton.