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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
Deborah has spent many years in research and service development, focusing in areas of cardiology, genetics, ethnicity, hypertension, physical assessment and history taking within nurse-led initiatives.
She has worked collaboratively with many multi-disciplinary teams at national and international levels on small and large research studies that have addressed multiple health needs in patients, clients and their families.
Presently, her teaching commitments are undertaken in post-registered and post graduate programmes and supervision of projects and dissertations predominantly of Masters level.
Deborah’s research expertise has been
predominantly within quantitative work, to study the association of arterial
compliance with ethnicity, gender and age, by implementing the technique of
pulse wave analysis and velocity.
Her doctoral thesis examined the beta
receptor polymorphisms and the effect on premature development or ‘accelerated
risk’ in hypertension occurring in African Trinidadians.
She has been
successful in developing nurse-led clinics in hypertension and cardio-genetics,
nationally and internationally and continues to have a collaborative output at
both levels.
Recently, she completed the initiation of new concepts relating to
cardio-genetics into clinical services funded by the Department of Health
exploring and highlighting the emerging significance of advanced practitioners
and nurse consultant roles within acute and primary care settings.
She also has a track record of gaining funding, solely and collaboratively from a range of organisations, including the British Heart Foundation, Florence Nightingale Foundation, Sandra Charitable Trust, Department of Heath, NHS Trusts, University Fellowships and private companies.
