We have a range of international and home students undertaking a variety of research at PhD level, see below:
Our current Postgraduate students
Alisha Aman
Title of PhD: Integration of Quantitative trait loci and GWAS data to find potential drug repurposing opportunities and associations between cardiometabolic diseases and mental illness.
Funder: The British Heart Foundation
Start date: October 2020
Expected submission date: November 2023
Advisor: Professor Naveed Satar, Dr Rona Shawbridge, Dr Joey Ward
Gonca Kose
Title of PhD: Understanding the Relationship between Future Thinking and Suicide Risk
Funder: The Republic of Turkey, Ministry of National Education, Directorate General for Higher and Overseas Education
Start Date: September 2019
Expected submission date: September 2022
Advisor : Professor Jonathan Evans, Professor Rory O'Connor
Wattana Tejakum
Title of PhD: Resilience in mothers of adolescents with intellectual disabilities
Funder: Royal Thai Embassy
Start date: September 2021
Expected submission date: August 2024
Advisor : Professor Craig Melville, Dr Deborah Kinnear, Dr Maria Truesdale
Nadia Ahmed
Title of PhD: Investigating intersectionality method in relation to social disadvantages and mental health ( depression) in women in Saudia Arabia
Funder : Saudia Arabia Education Ministry
Start date : November 2017
Expected submission date : September 2022
Advisor: Professor Craig Melville, Dr Kirsty Dunn, Dr Deborah Kinnear
Lauren Fulton
Title of PhD: Taking an asset-based approach to the social inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities
Funder : The Scottish Government
Start date : October 2017
Expected submission date : December 2022
Advisor : Professor Andrew Jahoda, Deborah Kinnear
Elvan Unlu
Title of PhD: Mental Health PhD Program
Funder : Self-funded
Start date: September 2020
Expected submission date: December 2022.2023
Advisor : Prosessor Rory O'Connor, Dr Ambrose Melson
Lin Cheng
Title of PhD: Nursing Science
Funder: China Scholarship Council
Start date: January 2022
Expected submission date: December 2025
Advisor : Dr Deborah Kinnear
Cara Richardson
Title of PhD: Towards an enhanced understanding of suicide risk in men
Funder: Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)
Start date: October 2018
Expected submission date: December 2021
Advisor : Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor Kathryn Robb
Kirsty McAllister
Title of PhD: Investigating the nature and phenomenology of Borderline Personality disorder in young people in the general population.
Funder: MQ Mental Health research
Start date : April 2021
Submission date: April 2024
Advisor: Dr Ruchika Gajwani
Declan McLaren
Title of PhD: ‘Improving Sleep After Stroke: A Behavioural Intervention for Treating Post-Stroke Insomnia'
Funder : SGSSS (ESRC)
Start date : October 2021
Expected submission date : October 2024
Advisors : Dr Maria Gardani, Professor Jonathan Evans, Dr Satu Baylan and Dr Monika Harvey
Clara Kurtidu
Title of PhD: Improving cancer preventive behaviours in cancer patients and their families: a feasibility study in a prehab/rehab cancer surgery context
Funder : Scottish Cancer Foundation
Start date : January 2021
Expected submission date : January 2024
Advisors : Professor Katie Robb, Professor Sharon Simpson, Professor Susan Moug, Dr Christos Theodorakopoulos
Enock Havyarimana
Title of PhD: Harnessing the power of integrated data to investigate environmental exposures on ANCA vasculitis risk
Funder: Marie-Sklodowska Curie ITN Fellowship (European Commission Horizon 2020 programme)
Start date: November 2019
Expected submission date: December 2022
Advisor: Dr. Breda Cullen and Professor Neil Basu
Alexandra Rose
Title of PhD: The assessment of low mood, distress and depression in individuals with severe brain injury
Funder : Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability and The Frances & Augustus Newman Foundation
Start Date: September 2019
Expected submission date: July 2023
Advisors: Professor Jonathan J Evans, Dr Breda Cullen
Susanna Bennett
Title of PhD: Male Suicide Risk and Recovery Factors
Funder: Part-funded by Liam Britton Foundation and Jonathan's Voice
Start date: October 2019
Expected submission date: December 2022
Advisors: Professor Rory O'Connor and Professor Katie Robb
Xingxing Zhu
Title of PhD: Psychiatric phenotypes and brain structure:imaging and polygenic risk score analyses of anhedonia
Funder: the China Scholarship Council and the University of Glasgow
Start date: October 2019
Expected submission date::December 2022
Advisors: Dr Laura Lyall, Dr Rona Strawbridge and Professor Daniel Smith,
Yawen Zheng
Title of PhD: Mental Health
Funder: Self-funded student
Start date: 13th November 2020
Estimated submission date: November 2023
Advisors: Professor Rory O'Connor and Professor Jonathan Evans
Katerina Pappa
Title of PhD: ‘Working Memory Updating Training and the Rehabilitation of Goal Management After Brain Injury’
Funder: Neurosciences Foundation, the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler foundation and the Margaret Murdoch charitable trust
Start date : October 2018
Expected submission date: June 2022
Advisors: Professor Jonathan Evans, Dr Kristin Flegal, Dr Satu Baylan
Jessica Wyllie
Title of PhD: Understanding the relationship between stigma and suicide risk.
Funder: Scottish Association for Mental Health
Start date: January 2022
Expected submission date: December 2024
Advisors: Professor Rory O'Connor and Professor Katie Robb
Natasha Sangha
Title of PhD: Predicting outcomes for bipolar disorder and major depression by integrating circadian, neuroimaging and genetic data within UK Biobank: a machine learning approach
Funder: The Medical Research Council (MRC)
Start date: September 2019
Expected submission date: April 2023
Advisors: Dr Laura Lyall, Dr Breda Cullen, Dr Heather Whalley and Professor Daniel Smith