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.
Current Research Opportunities
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. |