Postgraduate research opportunities
PhD and MD opportunities in General Practice and Primary Care
If you are interested in PhD or MD opportunities within the area of general practice and primary care, please contact Prof Kate O'Donnell.
Information about study options, entry requirements, fees and funding, and how to apply is available on the main UofG website.
A list of current and recently completed doctoral students is available on this webpage.
Watch our video of doctoral students talking about the Glasgow/GPPC experience, the support they receive from their supervisors and the wider GPPC team, and the opportunities that have opened up to them.
Subject areas in which GPPC staff can offer supervision
David Blane Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Health inequalities/Inclusion health
- Living with long-term conditions
- Health services research
- Qualitative and mixed methods research
- Realist research methods
Katie Gallacher Senior Clinical Research Fellow
- Primary care management of stroke
- Stroke patient experience
- Minimally disruptive medicine, treatment burden, patient capacity in long term conditions, particularly stroke
- Mixed methods research – qualitative and quantitative
Bhautesh Jani Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Primary care mental health
- Chronic disease management
- Health inequalities
Sara Macdonald Professor
- Experiences and perceptions of health and illness
- Understanding of risk
- Candidacy
- Qualitative methods
Frances Mair Professor of Primary Care
- e-Health – particularly relating to implementation/integration and knowledge transfer opportunities as well as complex interventions (from professional, patient/carer, or public perspectives)
- Heart failure – particularly relating to palliative care issues, co-morbidity (particularly depression) and complex interventions
- Research using Normalisation Process Theory
- Minimally disruptive medicine addressing issues of treatment burden and multiple morbidity
Barbara Nicholl Senior Lecturer
- Chronic pain/musculoskeletal problems
- Mental health
- Long-term conditions
- Multimorbidity
- Epidemiological/quantitative research methods
Claire Niedzwiedz Research Fellow
- Mental health
- Health inequalities
- Epidemiology
- Multimorbidity
- Cancer (particularly psychosocial aspects)
Kate O'Donnell Professor of Primary Care Research and Development
- Organisation and delivery of primary care services
- Impact of new services and policy on patients and professionals
- Normalisation of new services and technologies
- Care for marginalised populations, in particular migrant populations
- Projects usually use mixed methods approaches and are often underpinned by Normalisation Process Theory, candidacy and the concept of treatment burden
Andrea Williamson Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health
- Patient engagement in health care
- Health care of marginalised patient groups particularly people who experience homelessness, problem substance use
- Representing medical and social complexity in health service research