CYP Potential PhD Projects
Potential PhD student topics
Theme 1: Optimising outcomes in paediatric acute, emergency, and critical care
- Muscle function changes in children during and after critical illness (Paul Comfort and Lyvonne Tume)
- Development and validation of a nutrition risk score for critically ill children (Lyvonne Tume)
- RCT of improved therapeutic environment by noise and light reduction intervention in the PICU (Lyvonne Tume)
- Does somatic NIRS predict earlier risk of NEC in pre- and post-operative cardiac neonates on PICU? (Lyvonne Tume)
- Screening for sepsis in children (Andrew Rowland)
- Development and validation of a clinical prediction tool to predict the likelihood of sepsis in children
- Development and validation of a clinical prediction tool to predict the likelihood of sepsis in children
- Identification by emergency department nurses of children presenting with masked critical illness (Andrew Rowland, Lyvonne Tume)
- Establishing the sub-conscious factors that prompt senior nurses in children’s emergency departments to identify children as being of high-level concern when physiological measures fail to do so: making implicit judgement explicit
- Sudden and unexpected death in childhood
- Determining the impact of a sudden and unexpected death in childhood joint agency response service
- Determining the impact of a sudden and unexpected death in childhood joint agency response service
- Primary care leading to admission to hospital of children
- Development and testing of a clinical prediction model to predict the likelihood of admission to hospital of children seen in primary care
Theme 2: Improving CYP mental health outcomes
- Mental health and wellbeing in school settings
- e.g., Retrospective evaluation of implementation and longitudinal effects of mental health initiatives in schools (Sue McAndrew, Celeste Foster & Eve Allen)
- Developing tools to increase teaching staff capability re: participation strategies with Children and young people (Eve Allen)
- CYP Mental Health Interventions
- e.g., Developing and testing digital wearable technology to help young people who self-harm (Celeste Foster and Daniela Ghio)
- Developing tools to enable professionals to assess and promote mental health outcomes for CYP
- e.g., Investigating the impact reflective practice groups for inpatient nursing staff on CYP mental health outcomes (Celeste Foster)
- e.g., Investigating the impact reflective practice groups for inpatient nursing staff on CYP mental health outcomes (Celeste Foster)
- e.g., Investigating the impact reflective practice groups for inpatient nursing staff on CYP mental health outcomes (Celeste Foster)
- Evaluation of a children’s advocacy centre on mental health outcomes
- e.g., Impact evaluation of the introduction of a children’s advocacy centre/service in Greater Manchester on mental health outcomes for service users (Andrew Rowland, Sue McAndrew)
- Investigating factors that affect CYP Mental Health
- e.g., Supporting the mental health of refugee and asylum seeker young people and their families within schools and communities (Transdisciplinary approaches) (Eve Allen, Sue McAndrew and Eunice Ayodeji)
Theme 3: Preventing and responding to child abuse
- ChildSafe UK
- Design, piloting and evaluation of the introduction of a novel ChildSafe UK programme in a community in Greater Manchester (Donna Peach)
Theme 4: Child empowerment and advocacy centre
- From Cambodia to the UK: lessons to be learned from work in South East Asia that can be translated for application in the UK (Andrew Rowland)
- Design, implementation and evaluation of a children’s advocacy centre
- Designing and piloting the introduction of a children’s advocacy centre in Greater Manchester
- Designing and piloting the introduction of a children’s advocacy centre in Greater Manchester