Mental Health and Neurodiversity PGRs
Sibo Mbofonga: An ethnographic study: Exploring Co-Production and Its Impact on Staff and Patients Lived Experience in Developing a Therapeutic Environment Within a Forensic Mental Health Setting
Supervisory Team: Dr Suryia Nayak and Dr Celeste Foster
January Woods: A narrative exploration of the use of Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT) with couples who have experienced developmental trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Supervisory Team: Dr Donna Peach and Dr Celeste Foster
Janine Hunter: Developing the evidence base to improve quality of care and health outcomes for children and young people in CAMHS psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) and other acute environments
Supervisory Team: Dr Celeste Foster, Prof Alison Brettle and Beryl Navti (Industry)
Liz Burns: How do policy ideals of community-centred approaches to reducing alcohol harm impact the reality of implementation?
Supervisory Team: Dr Celeste Foster and Prof Penny Cook
Ales Zivkovic: Examining the Usefulness of Interpretive Dynamic Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (IDTAP) in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) at Clinical and Subclinical Levels
Supervisory Team: Dr Celeste Foster, Dr Sam Gregory and Paul Fallon
Simone Litvaitis: Factors affecting Best Interest Decision making: A Q-Methodology Study
Supervisory Team: Dr Suryia Nayak and Dr Celeste Foster
Patience Udonsi: FASD, intersectionality and the justice system
Supervisory Team: Dr Suryia Nayak, Dr Celeste Foster and Dr David Gilbert
Jody Salter: The Impact of Forensic Report Quality and Crime Type on Mock Juror Perceptions of Credibility, Culpability and Criminal Responsibility in Defendants with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Supervisory Team: Prof Clare Allely and Dr Jack Wilson
Uzma Naseem: Exploring the potential risks and protective factors of individuals with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) that may provide the context of vulnerability for engaging in, or being victims of, harmful sexual behaviours or encounters with the criminal justice system as suspects or victims of sexual offences
Supervisory Team: Prof Clare Allely and Dr David Gilbert
Nicola Jackson: Exploring the Pathway from Parole to Probation for Offenders with Autism: A Spectrum of Perspectives
Supervisory Team: Prof Clare Allely and Dr Helen Hart (Dr Rachael Thompson)
Tania Goddard: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Fitness to Participate in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales
Supervisory Team: Prof Clare Allely and Dr Alan Price
Idris Fornah: Evaluating the Impact of a Clinical Nurse Specialist-Led Positive Behaviour Support Clinic to Reduce Challenging Behaviours in Patients with Learning Disabilities and Autism
Supervisory Team: Prof Clare Allely, Dr Lorraine Henshaw and Dr Siobhan Kelly
Meredith Ritchie: Exploring the experiences of men with autism with dating and romantic relationships, and how these experiences are influenced by online activity
Supervisory Team: Prof Clare Allely, Dr Nina Held and Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall
Supervisory Team: c/o Sheffield Hallam University
Lyndsey Rosson: University students’ lived experiences of support for a mental health problem: An interpretive phenomenological study
Supervisory Team: c/o Uclan, Professor Karen Wright and Professor Gill Thomson
Robyn McCarthy: Looking for FASD in Schools
Supervisory Team: Prof Penny Cook and Dr Joshua Pink
Joanna Leather: ‘Shore of the Wide World’: Developing a theoretical model of pluralistic Creative Expressive Therapy for use in education settings with Emerging Adults
Supervisory Team: Dr Donna Peach and Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston
Kyle Thurlow: Effective therapeutic approaches for treating dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorders
Supervisory Team: Dr Alan Price and Susan Price
Vincent Crawly: Evaluating an intensive residential care programme for young people with complex needs
Evaluation of an intervention for young people with complex needs in residential care, which he designed. It is related to psychology and social care and is trauma-informed and aims to improve mental health and keep them out of trouble with the police.
Supervisory Team: Dr Alan Price
Benjamin Laslett: Effects and experiences of Character Strengths Personal Disclosure Mutual Sharing in sport
Supervisory Team: Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Dr Andrew Evans and Dr Phillip Gray
Andrea Silverstone: It’s all about the impacts: interventions and remedies of those impacted by coercive control
Supervisory Team: Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall and Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall
Zoe Weatherall: Exploring the lasting impact coercive control has on women post-separation from their abusive male partners: a narrative-based study of women’s lived experiences
Supervisory Team: Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall and Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall
Sheridan Thomas: Decolonising Pre-Registration Undergraduate Midwifery
Supervisory Team: Dr Christine Furber and Prof Vanessa Heaslip
Folake Kehinde Ogunmekan: Exploring the Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy for Divorce
The impact of Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) on compassion levels, wellbeing, psychological distress, and self-criticism in individuals following relationship breakdowns or traumatic relationship experiences.
Supervisory Team: Dr Christine Furber and Dr Elaine Beaumont
Carolyn White: Barriers and facilitators to creative working for neurodivergent people in the creative workplace
Supervisory Team: Dr Adam Galpin and Dr Ben Short
Erica Boardman: Parenting in the digital age: Understanding the experiences of contemporary parents*
*This project is likely to develop a focus on Autism so is relevant to the group
Supervisory Team: Dr Adam Galpin, Dr Cathy Ure and Dr Gemma Taylor
Sam Royle: Associations between hangover symptom severity, psychosocial factors, and cognition
Supervisory Team: Dr Robert Bendall and Dr Lynne Marrow
Adelaide Beckwith: Aural diversity in sensory emotion regulation and its implications for mental health
Supervisory Team: Dr Robert Bendall and Duncan Williams
Steven Mitchell: The impact of environmental noise on neurodiverse & noise sensitive individuals relating to perceived loudness, background noise and noise source characteristics
Supervisory Team: Prof Antonio Torija Martinez and Dr Robert Bendall
Sylvester Rukani: Experiences of unaccompanied young people who have sought asylum in the United Kingdom, in their transition from residential care and semi-independent living to adulthood
Supervisory Team: Dr Donna Peach and Dr Donna-Maree Humphries
James Baker: Men who care: A qualitative exploration into the health and wellbeing of working aged men supporting a person they care for experiencing severe mental illness in East Sussex
Supervisory Team: Dr Donna Peach and Dr Kellie Thompson
Jeremy Gaynor: How do people describe their experiences of being insecurely attached in a post-pandemic world?
Supervisory Team: Dr Gemma Taylor and Dr Donna Peach
Keri Furnis: Life through their lens: Understanding the lived experiences and effects of social isolation and frailty on the older population
Supervisory Team: Dr Samantha Gregory and Dr Joy Probyn
Paul Magrath: Exploring Aural Diversity: Understanding the interplay of ADHD and ASD in auditory perception and soundscapes
Supervisory Team: Dr Samantha Gregory and Prof Bill Davies
Silvia Castellano: Aural neurodiversity: a data-driven transdiagnostic approach for understanding heterogeneity and complexity in musical hearing
Supervisory Team: Dr Samantha Gregory and Prof Bill Davies
Wa’d Abu-Zurayk: Is There an Identifiable Brainwave Pattern Associated with Adverse Food Reactions in a Clinical Sample of Primary School-Aged Children?
Supervisory Team: Dr Samantha Gregory and Dr Nabil Hasshim
Elijah Ariodogbu: The economic burden of FASD within the health and justice system
Supervisory Team: Dr David Gilbert and Dr Joshua Pink
Anna Baatz: The effects of child education on short-to-medium term dog welfare in the home environment
Supervisory Team: Dr Gemma Taylor and Prof Robert Young
Wilf Hashimi: Therapists’ perspectives of the extent to which Transactional Analysts can decommission sex-related shame using remote / online psychotherapy
Supervisory Team: Dr Gemma Taylor and Dr Laura Viliardos
Ellaine Sweeting: How is the education and examination of Transactional Analysis psychotherapists impacted by using video conferencing
Supervisory Team: Dr Gemma Taylor and Dr David Tate
James (Tom) Robinson: Developing & Manualising Poetry Therapy for Depression
Supervisory Team: Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Dr Laura Viliardos and Scott Thurston
Ailsa Parsons: Importance and utility of creative therapeutic flow (CTF) within creative arts therapies and research
Supervisory Team: Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston and Dr Ashely Weinberg
Karen Foren: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of interpreters in the counselling room when working with survivors of sex trafficking
Supervisory Team: Dr India Amos and Dr Laura Viliardos
Kathleen Kwakye-Donker: Exploring narratives of helpful and unhelpful aspects of Creative Arts Therapy for black women who have experienced sexual abuse in Pentecostal churches in the United Kingdom when delivered as twelve therapy sessions
Supervisory Team: Dr Laura Viliardos and Dr India Amos
Catherine Knibbs: Exploring child trauma, specifically the impact of viewing violence online
Supervisory Team: Dr Laura Viliardos and Prof Ben Light
John Yuen: An Emic Study of Person-Centred Therapy in a Chinese Community using the Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) method
Supervisory Team: Dr David Tate and Dr Wendy Traynor