Postgraduate supervision
Dr Twiddy welcomes PhD/MSc applications in the areas of:
Clinical trial design/recruitment issues
Chronic illness management
Care pathways
Patient and Public Involvement
Current PhD students
Laura Hermann - NIHR Doctoral Fellow: Improving the recruitment of females to clinical trials; A mixed methods study using coproduction to generate evidence-based recommendations. (co-supervisor)
Stephanie Meddick-Dyson NIHR Doctoral Fellow: Co-developing and implementation toolkit for palliative care in the intensive care unit. (co-supervisor)
Nurun Tania - Understanding the factors that influence engagement with specialist alcohol use disorder services for patients with alcohol related liver disease. (co-supervisor)
Louise Hitchman - NIHR Doctoral Fellow: Evaluating Shockwave therapy Of Lower Extremity diabetic Foot ULcers (SOLEFUL) (co-supervisor)
Sarah Hodge - University of Hull Cluster Fellowship: Embedding exercise into the cancer pathway (lead supervisor)
Francesca Leone- "Is Cardiac Surgery a Trauma? The “Heart of the Matter Study” (Lead supervisor)
Completed Students
Dr Santanu Acharya (MSc. 2011)
Dr Claire Mitchell (D.Clin, Psychol, 2013)
Dr Nichola Aspinall (MSc. 2013)
Dr Cheryl Craigs (PhD, 2015)
Dr Saja Al Reyes (PhD, 2015)
Dr Louise Johnson (D. Clin, Psychol., 2015)
Dr Nery Forester (MSc., 2016)
Dr Jessica Drinkwater - Participatory research to strengthen the role of patient and public involvement in general practice service improvement (PhD, 2021)
Dr Wendy Burton - The development and evaluation of an optimisation strategy to support children’s centres to implement a public health programme (PhD, co-supervisor, 2021 )
Dr Evangelos Ntanopoulos - Emerging environmental contaminants and health inequalities. (Primary supervisor) (PhD, 2022)
Dr Joanne Palmer - Inpatient Exercise for Critical Limb Ischaemia Patients Pre and Post Major Surgery: A Proof of Concept Study (EXERCISE) (co-supervisor) (PhD, 2022)
Hayley Crane - A mixed methods study of outcomes, experiences, and perceptions of through-knee and above-knee amputation (co-supervisor; PhD, 2023)
Adil Hazara - Systematic review and mixed-methods feasibility study of a novel transitional regime of incremental haemodialysis (Primary supervisor; PhD 2023)
Pam Parker -A proof of concept study evaluating the role of emerging ultrasound technologies in the assessment and monitoring of localised prostate cancer in men on an active surveillance programme. (Primary supervisor) (PhD 2024)
Lady Akwa - Development of a lifestyle physical activity intervention for women who misuse alcohol (co-supervisor) (PhD 2024)