Skip to main content
LOGO(small) - Queen's University Belfast
  • Our facebook
  • Our twitter
  • Our instagram
  • Our
SEARCH SEARCH
LOGO(large) - Queen's University Belfast

School of

Pharmacy

  • Home
  • Study
    • Undergraduate
    • Postgraduate
    • Scholarships
  • Research
    • Research Themes
    • Research Impact
    • Research Facilities
    • Find a PhD Supervisor
  • International
    • CQC New
  • Careers
    • Potential Careers
    • Pre-Registration Year
  • Discover
    • Pharmacy Practice Unit
    • Pharmacy Labs
    • Clinical Teaching Practitioners
    • Boots Teaching Practitioners
    • Green Impact
  • Connect
    • Academic Staff
    • Administrative Staff
    • Technical Staff
    • Clinical Pharmacists
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellows
    • CQC Staff
  • News
  • Home
  • Study
    • Undergraduate
    • Postgraduate
    • Scholarships
  • Research
    • Research Themes
    • Research Impact
    • Research Facilities
    • Find a PhD Supervisor
  • International
    • CQC New
  • Careers
    • Potential Careers
    • Pre-Registration Year
  • Discover
    • Pharmacy Practice Unit
    • Pharmacy Labs
    • Clinical Teaching Practitioners
    • Boots Teaching Practitioners
    • Green Impact
  • Connect
    • Academic Staff
    • Administrative Staff
    • Technical Staff
    • Clinical Pharmacists
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellows
    • CQC Staff
  • News
  • Our facebook
  • Our twitter
  • Our instagram
In This Section
Research
  • Research
  • Research Themes
  • Research Impact
  • Research Facilities
  • Find a PhD Supervisor
  • Home
  • School of Pharmacy
  • Research
  • Find a PhD Supervisor

Find a PhD Supervisor

Professor Carmel Hughes

School of Pharmacy
Carmel Hughes

Professor Carmel Hughes

School of Pharmacy

Carmel M. Hughes is Professor of Primary Care Pharmacy and Head of the School of Pharmacy, Queen's University of Belfast.  Her main research interests are long-term care for older people, rational prescribing, the interface between general practitioners and pharmacists, and evidence-based health care.  She is also interested in the development of interventions and core outcome sets (COS).  She uses a variety of methodologies in her research, including qualitative techniques and a range of quantitative methods, including randomised controlled trials.

Contact info

  • View Academic Profile
  • c.hughes@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 2147

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of 

  • Primary care
  • Prescribing
  • Older people
  • Medicines optimisation
  • Most projects which students undertake are mixed methods in nature i.e. using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including trials. 

Make a PhD enquiry


Current Research Opportunities

  • The development of a Core Outcome Set (COS) for trials evaluating interventions focusing on adherence to appropriate polypharmacy

Public outreach & key achievements

Carmel was the first pharmacist to have been appointed to a Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy (1998-99) which she spent at Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.  Carmel is the only pharmacist to have been awarded a National Primary Care Career Scientist Award.  She received the British Pharmaceutical Conference 2001 Practice Research medal.  She is Associate Editor for BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies and the EPOC Group in the Cochrane Collaboration.  She is also a member of the Health Services and Delivery Commissioned Research Panel for the National Institute for Health Research, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Unit of Assessment 3 Sub-panel for REF 2021 and the International Scientific Council (ISC) of the Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI).


Research students

PhD Title The role of primary care pharmacists
Name Ameerah Hasan Ibrahi
Country Jordan
Year of Study  2018-2021
   
PhD Title  Medication use challenges in visually impaired
Name Basma Kentab
Country Saudi Arabia
Year of Study  2017-2021 
   
PhD Title  Medication use challenges in visually impaired patients
Name Basma Kentab
Country Saudi Arabia
Year of Study 2017-2021
   
PhD Title Mubarak Alqahtani
Name Appropriate polypharmacy in older people
Year of Study 2020-2023
Country Saudi Arabia

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Drug abuse and misuse: A community pharmacy perspective
Name Dr. Glenda Fleming
Year of Study 1997-2000
Country  Northern Ireland
Current Position Deputy Director for the Medicines Optimisation Innovation Centre (MOIC), Northern Health & Social Care Trust & the Training, Service Development and Research Pharmacist for the Trust
   
PhD Title Appropriate use of non-prescription drugs
Name  Prof. Mayyada Wazaify
Year of Study 2000-2003
Country Jordan
Current Position Professor of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, University of Jordan and Adjunct Professor in Social Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland
   
PhD Title Investigation of the role of pharmacological exposures in the aetiology and survival of pancreatic cancer
Name  Dr. Marie Bradley
Year of Study 2006-2009
Country N. Ireland and now, USA
Current Position Lead Pharmacoepidemiologist in the Division of Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration.

 

 


Discover More

  • Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences

  • School of Pharmacy

  • Materials and Advanced Technologies for Healthcare

  • Cochrane: Effective Practice and Organisation of Care

     


Postgraduate research
Apply now
Your postgraduate experience
Queen's University Belfast - Logo (small)
Contact Us

School of Pharmacy

Medical Biology Centre,
97 Lisburn Road,
Belfast, BT9 7BL. 

GET DIRECTIONS

Phone :+44 (0)28 9097 2086
E-mail: pharmacyinfo@qub.ac.uk

Quick Links

  • Home
  • Study
  • Careers
  • Research

 

© Queen's University Belfast 2021
Legal
Accessibility Statement
Privacy and Cookies
Modern Slavery Statement