Celebrating our Postgraduate Research Students
We would like to extend a huge congratulations
to all the Postgraduate Research students graduating this year.
Your time at Queen’s has been more than just a place to study but also a place to grow, innovate, and make lasting connections. During your time at Queen’s, you will have enjoyed access to cutting-edge facilities and comprehensive study programmes, all designed to help you thrive in your chosen field. Collaborating with world-leading experts, engaging in ground-breaking interdisciplinary research, and contributing to impactful discoveries that will shape our world and your future
FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF ARTS, ENGLISH AND LANGUAGES
| PhD Translation | Hailah Abdulaziz M Alfaisal | Enhancing Saudi Undergraduate Students' Employability by Integrating Translation Competences and CAT Tools into Translation Training Programmes |
| PhD Translation | Saud Audeh Abd Alrahman Al-Khresheh | Making and Remaking History: A Foreignized Thick Translation of Lawrences Seven Pillars of Wisdom into Arabic |
| PhD Translation | Amirah Khamis Almashjari | The Visibility of the Translator in Translating the Gendered Voice in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice into Arabic: A Comparative Analysis |
| PhD Media and Broadcast | Brian William Byrne | Bodies in Place: Responding to Migration through Participatory Practice for Emerging Media |
| PhD English | James Costello O'Reilly | Northern Irish Poetry and the News |
| PhD Translation | Zhidong Cui | Developing Chinese College EFL Teachers’ Translation Competence: An Integrated Instructional Design |
| PhD Music | Adam Peter Denton | In Fleeting Coherence: Performing these Poetics in the Conurbational Trans-World |
| PhD Music | Matthew Geer | Approaching the Enumeration of Maximal Systems through the Phenomenology of Temporal Consciouness: A Portfolio of Compositions |
| PhD Music | Vivienne Griffin | SYNTHETIC FEELINGS: Disembodied Voices in a Virtual World |
| PhD English | Eva Janet Isherwood-Wallace | Laura Riding's Sculptural Modernism |
| PhD Interpreting | Lu Li | Patterns of Disfluency in Consecutive Interpreting and Their Potential Causes: A Mixed-methods Research |
| PhD English | Rhonda Mary Mayne | Virginia Woolf and Dance |
| PhD Film Studies | Rawan Raja Mazzawi | Woman and Social Media in Palestine: a creative practice analysis |
| PhD Music | Conor John McAuley | Musical Pathways: Exploring Bodily Movement and the Context of others in Improvised Drumming |
| PhD English | Marcella Louise-Allred McSweeney | Along the Lac Qui Parle River and "The True Gift Beneath the Pale Lakes of Minnesota": Robert Bly's Poetics and the Midwest Landscape in Silence in the Snowy Fields |
| PhD Translation | Hannah Sarah Smith | Deviancy as a Socio-Cultural Construct: Journalism, Translation and Othering during the Northern Ireland Troubles |
| PhD Translation | Maisa Said Ali Suleiman | Translating Controversy: Globalisation, identity and pedagogy |
| PhD English | Conleth Thornbury | Agency and the Natural World in the Ecogothic Fiction of Andrew Michael Hurley & Roundings Road, a novel |
| PhD English | Ebenezer Breman Veerasingam | Sri Lankan Experiences of Migration to the West: An Analysis of Diasporic Literature as a Medium of Prosthetic Memory |
| PhD English | Ciarán Robert Walsh | Surrogate Objects in Early Medieval Literature and Material Culture |
| PhD Music | Orly Watson | Portfolio of Compositions: Contemporary Romanticism? |
| PhD Music | Yang Yang | Traditional Chinese Values and Perfectionism - Impacts on Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) in Chinese Piano Students |
| PhD Translation | Shurui Yang | Translator-Becoming: A Wayfaring Journey to Bringing Philadelphia, Here I Come! to the Chinese Stage |
SCHOOL OF HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS
| PhD Politics | Tufail Ahmed | Explaining Participation in Insurgency in Balochistan, Pakistan: Trajectories and Patterns of Radicalization |
| PhD Anthropological Studies | Taika Lumi Bottner | Dementia and the Art of Caring: New Opportunities for Creative Practitioners in the Ageing Economy |
| PhD Anthropological Studies | Colette Casey | Digital Narratives and the Performative Power of News in the Era of False Information: An Ethnography of Journalism in Northern Ireland |
| PhD History | Sarah Carol Curry | 'The Intersection of White Supremacy, Anti-Communism, and Womanhood at the Height of the Cold War' |
| PhD Anthropological Studies | Brianna Kristi Griesinger | Feminist Realities, Transformative Possibilities: Storytelling in pursuit of reproductive justice in Peru. |
| PhD History | Andrew William Hamilton | Mobility, Law and Sedition: The Rise and Impact of Vagrancy in Late Medieval England |
| PhD History | Barry James Henderson | The Forgotten Tycoon: James McHenry (1817-91) and the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad (c.1851-80) – A cosmopolitan conduit for European investment in nineteenth century American nation building. |
| PhD Politics | Sydney Marcille Holt | "It is not whether you identify as Roma, but whether you are identified as Roma by others…”: Exploring the intersection between biopower, the census, and Roma experiences of belonging |
| PhD Politics | Eoghan Michael Kelly | The Decline of Duverger? The Impact of Devolution on Party Systems in the United Kingdom |
| PhD Anthropological Studies | Yulong Li | Tea Tourism and Bulang Culture: World Heritage Conservation in Yunnan, China |
| PhD International Studies | Stephen Dennis Murray | Crises on the Doorstep and the Horizon: the role of multilateralism in addressing complex crises in the Sahel and beyond. |
| PhD History | Rachel Laura Jane Newell | Women in the Dock: Female Criminality and Ulster Society, 1880-1930. |
| PhD History | James Timothy Nugent | "Making Ulster the Tourist's Mecca": Leisure, Placemaking, and Modernity in the North of Ireland, 1900-1975 |
| PhD History | Declan Patrick O'Doherty | Silent Sacrifice: A study of the Impact of trauma on veterans of the Irish Revolution. |
| PhD Politics | Dale William Henry Pankhurst | From Control to Conflict: Explaining Change in State-Militia Relationships during Armed Conflict and Civil War. |
| PhD Anthropological Studies | Jing Ru | Sino-African Marriages in Guangzhou-Exploring Women's Choice, Dilemmas, and Resilience |
| PhD History | Emma Taylor | Vanished Veterans: The Multifaceted Reasons for Minimal Historical Representation and Public Commemoration of Concealed Female American Civil War Soldiers |
| PhD History | Sophia Emily Traxler | In Justice and Fair Play: Female Veterans, the Irish Free State, and Military Service Pensions, 1934-1958 |
| PhD History | Ali Muhammad Rejai Zubaidi | Royal Justice, Law, and the Peasants' Revolt 1381 |
SCHOOL OF LAW
| PhD Law | Gillian Wilma Keilty | Constructing Knowledge on Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Policy-making, Human Rights and the Private Individual |
| PhD Law | Richard John McBride | The Judicial and Legal Role of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1852 to 1922 |
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WORK
| PhD Education | Natasha Attard | The Effectiveness of Behaviour Analytic Programmes for Autistic Children within an Inclusive Mainstream Primary School Setting |
| PhD Education | Christine Elizabeth Bower | ‘Friendships’ for young people with a learning disability or who are autistic: A Participatory Action Research project |
| PhD Social Work | Carol Ann Carson | Developing Good Practice in Autism and Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB) |
| EdD (R) Education | Aoife Cooney | An exploration of children’s understandings and experiences of quality Early Childhood Education and Care |
| EdD (R) Education | Clare Margaret Halligan | Exploring teachers perspectives on well-being in early years classes in primary schools |
| PhD Education | Sarah Genevieve Heard | Student Protests: Conceptualising Civil and Political Rights in Education |
| DChild (R) Childhood Studies | Kate Hills | Just keep swimming? Understanding the challenges and motivators for club level swimmers |
| PhD Sociology | Kelly S Huie | Self-disclosure on Snapchat Stories and experiences of victimization and harm |
| PhD Education | Mehmet Baki Karahan | Reading supports for struggling readers in Northern Ireland primary schools |
| PhD Social Work | Daniel McFadden | Social Support, Trauma and Mental Well-being Experiences of Imprisoned Men in Northern Ireland |
| DChild (R) Childhood Studies | Deirdre Elizabeth McGrath | Childrens participation in early childhood settings. Listening to and hearing the voices of children and educators |
| EdD (R) Education | Jennifer Dorothy McKenzie | School Guidance in a multicultural Ireland:- What should the future look like? |
| PhD Education | Monica Ann Millar | A Positive Behaviour Support approach enhanced with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy elements to improve anxiety related behaviour within family routines for autistic children with an Intellectual Disability |
| PhD Education | Jianzhou Ni | A mixed-method study on Chinese elementary students' academic experiences: investigating academic emotions, teacher self-efficacy, and family involvement. |
| PhD Sociology | Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird | ‘Mól an óige agus tiocfaidh sí’: Examining the relationship between Gaeloideachas and community regeneration in West Belfast. |
| DChild (R) Childhood Studies | Patricia Bernadette Nicholl | The views and experiences of primary school teachers regarding personal education plans (PEPs) for children in care in Northern Ireland |
| PhD Education | Michael Nicolosi | Intensive Behavioural Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism |
| PhD Sociology | Angela Rogan | Navigating Social and Epistemic Harms: The Role of Facebook in Women's Health Activism Against Essure |
| PhD Sociology | Benjamin Martin Rosher | Taking Back Control: Brexit, Northern Ireland, and the Damoclesian Border |
| PhD Education | Yubaedi Siron | Learn from Parents: Exploring Parental Involvement in STEM Activities in Indonesian Early Childhood Education |
| PhD Social Policy | Md Salah Uddin | Forced Migration of Rohingya community from Myanmar: Examining the consequences, challenges, and policy options of international humanitarian aid mobilization within host and migrated communities in Bangladesh |
QUEEN'S BUSINESS SCHOOL
| PhD Business and Management | Yongxin Chen | Digital transformation in China: the role of top management team |
| PhD Business and Management | Blessing Chidiogo Chukwuka | The ‘Maternal Body’ and Work Experiences of Working Mothers: A Global South Perspective |
| PhD Business and Management | Caroline Jayne Millar | Maternity related employment transition experiences of mother workers situated within the meso level context of the organisation |
| PhD Finance | Sweta Pramanick | Tackling Productivity Questions |
| PhD Finance | Anh Thi Van Vu | Aligning Finance with Low Carbon Economy: Perspectives from Green Finance Policies |
| PhD Business and Management | Liecheng Wang | Small and Medium- sized enterprises’ green transformation: Evidence from China |
| PhD Finance | Ying Zhang | Towards Financial Resilience: An Examination of Basel III Implementation, Efficiency and Stability in China’s Banking Landscape |
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
| PhD Chemistry | Wafaa Aiad M Aljuhani | Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles for Studying Complex Interactions and Dynamics in Biological Systems Using Surface- Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Insights From Biofilms. |
| PhD Chemistry | Samantha Jane Bann | Synthesis and Structural Studies of Macrocyclic Antimicrobial Peptides |
| PhD Chemistry | Sharizal Bin Mohd Azam Shah Wong | Removal of Heavy Metals from Hydrocarbons |
| PhD Chemical Engineering | Tanmay Jyoti Deka | Evaluation of utilising bio-derived methanol for generation of alternative fuels – A case study in India |
| PhD Chemistry | Poh Gaik Law | Phase Change Materials for Automotive Applications |
| PhD Chemistry | Eilidh Jean Matheson | Exploring Bacterial Isoprenoids as Antibiotic Targets |
| PhD Chemistry | Meadhbh Murray-Williams | Dicationic Palladium(II) Complexes as Catalysts for Alkene Oxidation and Isomerisation |
| PhD Chemistry | Michela Pacchione | Development and evaluation of polymer sorbents for Phosphorus recovery from waste streams |
| PhD Chemistry | José Angel Pérez Tomás | Co-entrapment of Lipases and Ionic Liquids in Gels |
| PhD Chemistry | Scott David Place | Electroanalytical Evaluation of Redox Catalysts for Organic Electrosynthesis A Case Study of Nitroxyl-Mediated Alchohol Oxidation |
| PhD Chemistry | John Mark Andrew Young | Gas Separation Technologies |
| PhD Chemical Engineering | Xiaotong Zhao | Integrated CO2 capture and utilisation: exploring dual-functional materials and molten salt media |
| PhD Chemistry | Jiahui Zhou | Computer Directed Evolution of Enzyme Selectivity for Bioproduct Synthesis |
SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
| PhD Electrical & Electronic | Majed Obaid Alsharari | Efficient FPGA Implementations for Gradient Boosted Decision Trees with Applications in Real-Time Medical Imaging Systems |
| PhD Computer Science | Ahmad Mohammad Lutfi Al-Zuraiqi | Secure Internet of Things using Deep Learning |
| PhD Electrical & Electronic | Yahya Adnan Y Atwa | Future Glass Factory: Precision Shaping of glass using Amorphous Silica Nanocomposite Prepolymer and Replication Molding |
| PhD Electrical & Electronic | James Boyle | Frequency Control from Wind Power Stations with Battery Energy Storage |
| PhD Electrical & Electronic | Charalampos Eleftheriadis | Energy-Efficient Power Spectral Analysis Systems via Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design |
| PhD Computer Science | Moustafa Ahmed Faheem | Cloud-Edge Acceleration Strategies for Discrete Event Simulation in Manufacturing Systems |
| PhD Computer Science | Padraig Joseph Fitzpatrick | New methods for enhancing topological data analysis |
| PhD Computer Science | Alimuddin Melleng | Intelligent Methods for Analyzing Veracity and Helpfulness of Online Reviews |
| PhD Electrical & Electronic | Zohreh Moradinia | Machine Learning-Driven Strategies for Managing Precision and Efficiency in Multiphysics Simulations |
| PhD Electrical & Electronic | Yuzhu Sun | Learning and Control for Human-Robot Collaboration: A Focus on Safety and Adaptability |
| PhD Computer Science | Styliani Tompazi | Microarchitecture and Workload-Aware Error Prediction based on Artificial Intelligence |
| PhD Computer Science | Zhaoyu Zhang | Towards Data Efficient Generative Models |
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
| PhD Mathematics | Olivia Dympna Adair | A Novel Cost-Effectiveness Model for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in Northern Ireland |
| PhD Physics | William Bate | Wave motion in small scale features in the lower solar atmosphere |
| PhD Physics | Olivia Elizabeth Baxter | Development of a Scanning Thermal Microscopy Method for High-Resolution Spatial Mapping of the Electrocaloric Effect |
| PhD Physics | Luke Calvin | Laser Driven Muon Production for Materials Inspection and Imaging |
| PhD Mathematics | Dulan Samuditha Dias | Statistical Modelling driven Artificial Intelligence for Hospital Discharge Decision- Making |
| PhD Physics | Kyle James Fleck | Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics in the Field of Ultra-Intense Lasers |
| PhD Physics | Andrew Fraser Gillan | Activity in Jupiter-family Comets and Asteroids: Photometric Analysis of Survey and Deep Imaging |
| PhD Physics | Sarah Katherine Gregg | Many-body theory of positron binding, scattering and annihilation in molecules |
| PhD Mathematics | Jonathan Wesley Henderson | Developing Spatial Models for Early Glaucoma Detection using Retinal Ganglion Cell Point Patterns |
| PhD Mathematics | Miao Hu | Link Prediction (Retrieval) in Knowledge Graphs and Issue Tracking Systems |
| PhD Physics | David Gerard Jackson | Terra Hunting: Extreme precision mass-measurements of Earth like worlds |
| EngD Photo Int & Adv Data | Pádraig Eoin Mc Girr | Hyperspectral Imaging and Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance for Next-Generation Biosensor Systems |
| PhD Physics | Orla Anne McCusker | Multi-species ion acceleration with high power lasers and their detection |
| PhD Physics | Benjamin William Wilson | Investigation on the suitability of IrMn based Antiferromagnetic structures for tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) applications |
SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Charlie George William Bateman | Amino acid-based thermoplastic polyurethanes for soft tissue repair |
| PhD Aerospace Engineering | Jack Martin Boggs | Value Driven Design of Product Families |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Judith Cameron | Exploring the Structure-Processing-Property Relationships of PLLA in Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds using High Resolution Characterisation |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Dylan Vincent Do Couto | Alternative 3D processing techniques for complex automated material handling |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Thomas Fisher | Development of a composite combat helmet using structural metamaterials |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Gunanga Jyoti Gogoi | Azobenzene-based thermoplastic polyurethanes with photothermal effects |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Bingxin Li | Stretchable and self-healing polymer nanocomposite hydrogel−based supercapacitors |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Ruaraidh MacLennan | Computational analysis of Interface formation during injection overmoulding of PEEK/PPS hybrid composites |
| PhD Aerospace Engineering | Dónal McCaughey | Numerical Analysis of Merging Supersonic Streamwise Vortices for Enhanced Mixing in Scramjet Engines |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Liam Michael McGrane | Factors affecting oxygen storage capacity measurement of three-way automotive catalysts |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Liam Matthew O'Connor | 3D Printed polymer graphene nanocomposites for bio-sensorApplications |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Riddhi Salotra | Conventional and green extraction of polyphenols from brown seaweeds and their chemical characterisation |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Zohreh Sarichloo | Modelling strategies to investigate the impact of variability in construction and installation of floating wind turbines: a focus on the base ports |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Maloba Ketchen Tabi | Multifunctional Polycaprolactone/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Coatings for Metal Implants |
| PhD Mechanical Engineering | Richard Malcolm Woodfield | Investigating the Use of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries in Transport Applications |
SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
| PhD Civil Engineering | Gautam Baruah | Stochastic Dynamic Analysis of Floating Solar Structures |
| PhD Environmental Planning | Rachael Nadia Elmajri Black | Co-designing a Shared Future: How Can Children Be a Part of the Reimagining of Belfasts Interfaces |
| PhD Archaeology & Palaeoecolog | Helen Mary Essell | Holocene Landscape Evolution of the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland. |
| PhD Geography | Callum Robert Clifford Evans | Response of testate amoebae to peatland drain blocking: implications for biomonitoring of peatland restoration efforts |
| PhD Geography | Neal Halforty | Neighbourhood Attachment and Place Identity in a Post Conflict Society: Portuguese Communities in Small Town and Semi-Rural Northern Ireland |
| PhD Architecture | Christopher Martin Hamill | Irelands Architecture of Containment: An Examination of the Magdalene Laundries through Design & Experience |
| PhD Civil Engineering | Yuanye He | Impact Resistance and Modelling of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) Plates |
| PhD Civil Engineering | Emily Louise McAllister | Development of cross-laminated timber composite panels from C16 timber |
| PhD Civil Engineering | Daniel William McCloskey | Transforming waste glass to sodium silicate; an activator for cement-free binders and concrete products |
| PhD Civil Engineering | Ben Millar | Scour Depth Prediction, Using Computer Vision, at a FlexiArch Bridge. |
| PhD Archaeology & Palaeoecolog | Fiona Louise Moffett | The Place of the Late Medieval Church in the North of Ireland |
| PhD Archaeology & Palaeoecolog | Hazel Katriona Mosley | Landscape of Production; Exploring the palaeoenvironmental context of stone tool quarrying, manufacture, use and deposition on Neolithic Shetland |
| PhD Archaeology & Palaeoecolog | Courtney Ann Mundt | Mapping and Researching the Influences behind Cillíní Distribution in Counties Fermanagh, Meath and Antrim. |
| PhD Civil Engineering | Sachie Prabuddha Sathurusinghe Sathurusinghe Arachchillage | Fluid-Structure Induced Scour in the FlexiArch Bridge System |
| PhD Architecture | Yanlin Wang | Modelling Bottom-Up Behavioral Dynamics for Community-Based Adaptive Flood Risk Management |
| PhD Civil Engineering | Rosslyn Marianne Watret | Advancement of Non-invasive detection methods of cortisol in teleost fish |
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
| Doctor in Clinical Psychology | Lois Craig | Dimensions of Childhood Adversity and Psychological Outcomes. |
| Doctorate Clinical Psychology | Aine Crumlish | Occupational Wellbeing of Hospital Surgical Staff. |
| Doctorate Clinical Psychology | Cliona Hunt | Exploring Factors of Moral Injury, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Burnout in Healthcare Staff. |
| PhD Psychology | Róisín Rita Keenan | Human-robot coordination during hand-over tasks in virtual reality |
| PhD Psychology | Alaina Marie Macri | Connecting People with Zoo and Aquarium Animals |
| PhD Psychology | Ceri Alice Welsh | Improving the Assessment of Dark Personalities for the Prediction of Stress and Cognitive Performance |
FACULTY OF MEDICINE, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
| PhD Biological Sciences | Sayeda Sabrina Ali | Sustainability,Chemo-dynamics,and Remediation of Climate-threatened soils in Barishal Division,Bangladesh |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Connie Ellice Jayne Baker-Arney | An investigation of the behaviour and physiology of female fallow deer (Dama dama) during pregnancy |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | Kayley Diane Barnes | Seaweeds: a natural approach to improve ruminant productivity, quality of animal products and reduce environmental emissions |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Philip Best | Molecular characterisation of hybrid Fasciola from central Vietnam |
| PhD Biological Sciences | George Beckton Brown | Why do animals play? Unravelling the functions of play behaviour in juvenile fallow deer, Dama dama |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Simran Kaur Cheema | Maximising the Clinical Use of Donor Human Milk |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Qihua Duan | The Role of Non-Coding RNA in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatosis Liver and Cardiovascular Disease |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Nicole Helen Henry | The targeted use of multi-species swards to manage parasites and promote livestock health and welfare |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | Francesca Johansen | Understanding dairy cow behaviour to improve production and explore welfare implications in automatic milking systems |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Ranran Li | Exploring the Human Milk Microbiota: Multiple Approaches to Uncover Microbial Diversity and Interactions |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | Qingxiao Liang | Investigation and evaluation of anti-inflammatory effects of medicinal plants |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Sophie Lucia Loca | Distribution and management of the critically endangered Flapper Skate, Dipturus intermedius |
| PhD Biological Sciences | James Francis Mackle | Opioid dependence vulnerability in a rodent model |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | Tara Meeke | Effects of sheep grazing and breeding strategies on animal performance and grass production, utilisation, and quality |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | Laura Catherine Miskell | Targeted treatment of gastrointestinal nematode infections in cattle in Ireland |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Rachel Patricia Murdock | Exploring the Application of Rapid Evaporative Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) to Bovine Health Monitoring and Milk Quality Analysis |
| PhD Biological Sciences | William Kenneth O'Neill | Biostimulant Strategies to Enhance Performance and Quality of Italian Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Richard Salvage | Flavonoid Rich Complex Biostimulants and their Role in Increasing Global Crop Yield |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Uzma Shahid | Measurement and determinants of food security in rural households: an empirical application from Punjab Pakistan |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Samuel David Greenslade Smith | Insights into the Ecology of Sea Stars |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | James Michael Tate | Cost-Effective SERS-based Detection of Chlorpyrifos Residues in Honey |
| PhD Agri-Food & Land Use | Joshua Philip Thompson | The potential of willow (Salix sp), a tannin-rich tree to reduce the environmental impact from ruminants and improve productivity |
| PhD Biological Sciences | Christopher Patrick Wray | Can many biomarkers make light work of ovine fasciolosis diagnostics? |
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
| PhD Medicine | Emily Rose Agnew | Targeting USP7 to Treat Colorectal Cancer |
| PhD Medicine | Abdullah Abdulaziz Q Alsarrani | Association between Friendship Quality and Subjective Wellbeing in Adolescents: Social Network Analysis and Investigation of Moderators |
| PhD Medicine | Mosfer Ali N Alwalah | Development and Feasibility of a Physiotherapist-Led Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among Preschool Children: Using the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Guidelines for Developing Complex Health Service Interventions |
| PhD Medicine | Diya Bhattacharyya | Role of Single Ig Il-1-Related Receptor (SIGIRR/IL-1R8) in the Immunopathogenesis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) |
| MPhil Medicine | Niamh Shannon Blythe | Chronic primary pain in primary care: An exploration of GP perspectives |
| PhD Medicine | Stefano Bonazza | Dissecting Influenza A virus RNA trafficking and regulation |
| PhD Medicine | Rebecca Briggs | Exploring the Capability of Mutant SRSF2 to Elicit an Innate Immune Response in Myeloid Malignancies |
| PhD Medicine | Daniel Nathan Butler | At the Deep End of Northern Ireland's Health Inequalities: The Role of General Practice in Socioeconomically Deprived Areas |
| PhD Medicine | Ryan Byrne | Molecular risk stratification in early cancers detected during bowel cancer screening |
| PhD Medicine | Oisín Tadhg Cappa | Investigating Pathology Associated with Cardiac Hypertrophy at the Single-Cell Level |
| PhD Medicine | Emma Hope Cassinelli | Improving Health in the Preconception Period: Building from existing data to create pathways for future intervention |
| MPhil Medicine | Jill Chantal Christy | ‘Gut feeling, gestalt or guesswork?’ The lived experiences of GP trainees managing uncertainty in remote consulting |
| MPhil Medicine | Neil Matthew Daniel Cody | The use of peripheral ultrafiltration for deresuscitation in the critically ill |
| PhD Medicine | Patricia Jane Coulter | The development of innate immune responses of respiratory epithelium to RSV infection in infants with cystic fibrosis |
| PhD Medicine | Hannah Leigh Coutts | Post-transcriptional regulation of Influenza A virus mRNAs |
| PhD Medicine | Siobhan Cushley | Traditional or minimal intervention endodontics for managing carious teeth with symptomatic pulpitis in General Dental Practice. |
| PhD Medicine | Matilda Lucy Downs | Can Kras driven metabolic reprogramming in advanced lung cancer alter T cell phenotypes and functions? |
| PhD Medicine | Alexandra Jo Emerson | New Insights into the Anticancer Mechanisms of Combined dUTPase and Thymidylate Synthase Inhibition in Colorectal Cancer |
| PhD Medicine | Marina Ferrari | Personalising advice to improve diet quality and cardiometabolic health |
| PhD Medicine | Peter Meredith Rowntree Ferris | Mechanism of action of mucoactive drugs in a model of muco-obstructive lung disease |
| PhD Medicine | Ellen Alana Gorman | Cell Therapy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and COVID-19 |
| PhD Medicine | Caitlyn Harvey | Investigation of the in vitro and in vivo immunomodulatory activity of FhHDM-1 and its derivatives on bacterial induced infection and inflammation. |
| PhD Medicine | Courtney Shannon Hawthorn | Generation and Trial of Mucosal Virus Vectored Vaccines for Bovine Respiratory Viruses |
| PhD Medicine | Lucy Rose Kayes | Strategies to improve iodine status in early pregnancy |
| PhD Medicine | Leona Maria Lindberg | "The potential role of plant-based meat alternatives in healthy and sustainable diets" |
| PhD Medicine | Ryan Lusby | Dissecting The Gene Regulatory Circuitry Underlying Chemoresistance in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer |
| MPhil Dentistry | Sachi Makino | Oral Health and Nutrition in Older Adults |
| PhD Medicine | Lee Kevin Mason | Interactive visualization of data-driven methods for the exploration of spatiotemporal public health data. |
| PhD Medicine | Carla Louise McClintock | A speech recognition application as a communication aid for acute and critical care patients with tracheostomies |
| PhD Medicine | Catherine Rachel McClintock | Mitochondrial dysfunction in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and therapeutic mechanism of mesenchymal stromal cell derived extracellular vesicles |
| MD Medicine | Andrew James McGuigan | Investigating the role of the immune landscape in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma |
| PhD Medicine | Hanan Khalid Mofty | Addressing the challenges of DMO management by identifying structural and functional markers of progression or response to treatment. |
| PhD Medicine | Piangfan Naksukpaiboon | Construction and Analysis of Cancer Specific Interaction Networks by Co-Expression Analysis in Colorectal Cancer |
| PhD Medicine | Aidan O'Brien | Functional Characterisation of the 5p15.33 Pancreatic Cancer Risk Locus |
| MD Medicine | Sarah Mary O'Hare | Sim-lab: A formative intervention to promote transformative agency and organisational change through emergency care in-situ simulation in General Practice |
| MPhil Medicine | Orla O'Neill | Referral challenges for early-onset colorectal cancer: a qualitative study in UK primary care |
| PhD Medicine | Lauren Emma Proctor | Application of targeted protein degradation strategies to deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) |
| PhD Medicine | Emily Mary Claire Rogan | Identifying Molecular Determinants of Response to Standard of Care Chemotherapy in Colorectal Cancer |
| PhD Medicine | Adam Gordon Rollo | Targeting the Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels for Restoration of Microvascular Barrier Function in Diabetic Macular Oedema |
| PhD Medicine | Shikha Mahesh Tandel | Understanding Mechanisms of Lung Destruction in Patients with Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infection |
| PhD Medicine | Sanaa Majed Mohamed Tarban | Molecular analysis of the inner blood-retinal-barrier and its dysregulation in diabetes |
| PhD Medicine | Tom Michael Toner | Statistical and Deep Learning Approaches to Phenotype Discovery for Precision Oncology |
| PhD Published Work in Medicine | Mark Alexander Wappett | Development of novel, integrative bioinformatics approaches to identify drug targets withgenomic vulnerabilities and illuminate mechanism of action. |
| PhD Medicine | Nicola Ann Ward | The Effectiveness of a Protein Enriched Mediterranean Diet and Exercise Intervention on Nutritional Status and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults at risk of Undernutrition: The PROMED-EX Trial. |
| PhD Medicine | Andrew Anbar Wahib Yacoub | Investigating the role and mechanisms of key epigenetic modulators in endothelial cell specification and function |
SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Abdulaziz Khalifa J Alanazi | Linking Transformational Leadership to Patient Care Quality: The Role of Structural Empowerment and Nurses’ Clinical Leadership |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Ghadeer D M A M Alharbi | Transforming Nurse Education Through Co-Design: Creating an Effective High-Fidelity Simulation Scenarios |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Nabat Jobran Y Almalki | What helps or hinders end-of-life care in adult intensive care units in Saudi Arabia? A mixed methods study |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Mona Hamdi M Alrashdi | Exploring implementation of clinical practice guidelines in burn care among nurses in emergency and critical care departments: a mixed methods study |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Sahar Mazied N Alshammari | Healthcare Professionals' Understanding of Children's Rights: Development and Psychometric Testing of the Children's Rights Questionnaire |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Claire Elizabeth Cooper | Participation and Quality of Life in Adults with Cerebral Palsy |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Stephanie Allison Craig | Exploring the experiences of people living with dementia in Dementia Friendly Communities in Northern Ireland: A Realist Evaluation |
| PhD Nursing & Midwifery | Alannah Bernadette Curran | Exploring Digital Capability in Pre-registration Nursing Curricula: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study |
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
| PhD Pharmacy | Mona Abdullah Al Hamod | Development of Liposomal Inhaled Antibiotic Formulations to Target Pulmonary Infection |
| PhD Pharmacy | Noura Abdullah A Al Hamood | Optimization of Antibiotic-Loaded Liposomes for Inhalation to Improve Lung Infection Treatment |
| PhD Pharmacy | Hanadi Adi Shaker Al Shaker | Development of a core outcome set and selection of associated measurement instruments for clinical trials targeting interventions aiming to improve adherence to appropriate polypharmacy in older people |
| PhD Pharmacy | Hamoud Saud Alotaibi | Preparation of Biodegradable Lipid-based Indocyanine Green J-aggregate Nanoparticles for Photothermal Therapy |
| PhD Pharmacy | Mubarak Nasser M Alqahtani | Appropriate polypharmacy in older people: an assessment of evidence and methodological approaches |
| PhD Pharmacy | Nawaf Mohammed H Alsulami | A quantitative and qualitative analysis of medicines use by care home residents with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| PhD Pharmacy | Yuming An | Peptide hydrogels as a long-acting multipurpose drug delivery platform for combined contraception and HIV prevention |
| PhD Pharmacy | Shubhamkumar Mahendrabhai Baviskar | Formulations And Microporation Approaches For Enhancing Drug Delivery To The Anterior Segment Of The Eye |
| PhD Pharmacy | Prachi Bendale | The bacterial glycosyltransferase ArnT as a target for development of antimicrobial resistance breakers |
| PhD Pharmacy | Elise Joy Catlin | Development of precisely engineered albendazole nanocrystals with finetuned surface characteristics for potential selective drug delivery |
| PhD Pharmacy | Shiya Cheng | Rational design and bioactivity evaluation of antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretion of the frog, Pachymedusa dacnicolor |
| PhD Pharmacy | Wenjing Ding | Identification and modification of antimicrobial peptides from the dark-spotted frog, Pelophylax nigromaculatus with improved antibacterial potency and haemolytic activity |
| PhD Pharmacy | Meabh Treasa Doherty | Enhancing the Effectiveness of Radiotherapy by Targeting Tumour Metabolism: A Microfluidic approach to Nanotherapeutic Formulation |
| PhD Pharmacy | Ross Michael Duncan | Non-thermal Plasma for control of Orthopedic Infections |
| PhD Pharmacy | Andrew Thomas John England | Application of machine learning in chronic respiratory infection |
| PhD Pharmacy | Katie Glover | Development and evaluation of microneedles for ocular drug delivery |
| MPhil Pharmacy | Kaifeng Huang | Lactide-eluting silicone for implantable medical devices |
| PhD Pharmacy | Eman Mousa Farea Jaradat | Microfluidic Platforms for the Production of Nanomedicines for Cancer Therapy |
| PhD Pharmacy | Xuwei Leng | Characterisation, bioactivity evaluation and rational modification of bioactive peptides from frog skin secretion |
| PhD Pharmacy | Colleen Mai O'Sullivan | Antibiotic Resistance and Disease Burden of Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections in Neonates: Enhancing Targeted Empiric Treatment |
| PhD Pharmacy | Akash Chandrahas Shambharkar | Investigation of phage therapy approaches as attractive alternative to antibiotics for bio-control of genitourinary infections |
| PhD Pharmacy | Zhengze Sun | Identification, optimisation and structure-activity relationship study of Caerin 1 peptides from the frog skin secretion of Litoria Caerulea |
| PhD Pharmacy | Yushi Tao | Development of tailored artemether and lumefantrine nanocrystals for the management of cerebral malaria |
| PhD Pharmacy | Baiyu Wang | Identification, Modification and Functional Evaluation of Antimicrobial Peptides from the Skin Secretions Anuran species |
| PhD Pharmacy | Caixuan Wang | A vaginal ring releasing Lactobacillus, sucrose, and metronidazole for management of bacterial vaginosis |
| PhD Pharmacy | Junyi Wang | Function optimisation and evaluation of bioactive peptides from the frog skin secretion of Rana Chensinensis and the derivatives |
| PhD Pharmacy | Zihao Wang | Transdermal delivery of donepezil using microneedle technology for the potential treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. |
| MPhil Pharmacy | Siyuyang Wu | 3D Printing in the Manufacturing of Vascular Grafts |
| PhD Pharmacy | Jiaqi Wu | Investigating Wastewater Pipe Microbiomes in a Large Teaching Hospital following Endemic Infection Outbreaks |
| PhD Pharmacy | Siyang Wu | Developing Lipid Nanocapsules Therapeutics for Skin Cancer. |
| PhD Pharmacy | Jingyi Xu | Self-triggered Smart Biomaterials |
| PhD Pharmacy | Keyi Yao | Rational modification and bioactivity testing of antimicrobial peptides belonging to three different families from frog skin secretions of Rana pipiens |
| PhD Pharmacy | Meng Zhang | Scaling down microwave-assisted in-situ amorphization for personalisation of paediatric formulations |
| PhD Pharmacy | Ruixin Zhao | Discovery and engineering of a novel non-membranolytic peptide, QUB-2069, with enhanced in vitro efficacy against Escherichia coli |
| PhD Pharmacy | Tongxin Zhao | The identification, bioactive evaluation and exploration of the active sites of antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretion of Odorrana margaretae |
| PhD Pharmacy | Siqi Zhou | Identification and optimisation towards bioactivity study of novel antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretion of Rana dybowskii |
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