Faculty of Health and Life Sciences research student profiles

Nursing student profiles

Hilary Brown

Thesis title: Optimising the care and support of people with inoperable pancreatic cancer and their family carers

Started: January 2021

Director of Studies: Dr. Lucy Mcgeagh 

Second supervisor: Prof. Eila Watson

Hilary Brown

Emma Pascale Blakey

Emma Pascale Blakey is from Oxford and became a research student at Oxford Brookes in January 2016. Her thesis title is ‘Optimising the role of the nurse in reducing unplanned readmissions to hospital among people aged 65 years and over’.

Emma Pascale Blakey

Katie McCallum

Department of Nursing

Katie McCallum is from Southwell in Nottinghamshire. She joined Oxford Brookes as a research student in January 2017 and her thesis title is ‘Exploring the quality of death and dying in the emergency department from the perspective of staff and carers.’

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Psychology, Health and Professional Development student profiles

Sophie Harris

Thesis title: How do I get past this? The influence of anxiety, self-efficacy and movement variability on the perceptual judgements and executed actions of adults with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD).

Started: January 2020

Director of Studies: Dr Kate Wilmut

Sophie Harris

Fiona Matley

Fiona Matley is from Bristol and joined Oxford Brookes as a research student in September 2018. The title of her thesis is “Using automatic processes to change drinking behaviour in midlife adults”.

Fiona Matley

Samuel Bond

Samuel Bond is originally from Wigan and joined Oxford Brookes as a research student in October 2018. His thesis title is ‘A Detailed Exploration into the Constraints on Statistical Learning’.

Samuel Bond

Biological and Medical Sciences student profiles

Yanica Said

Yanica Said is originally from Malta. She joined Oxford Brookes in 2018 and the title of her thesis is ‘Identification of Novel Properties of Metabolic Systems Through Null-Space Analysis’.