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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
Nasreen Ali is a Senior Research Fellow in Public Health at the Institute for Health Research and teaches on the MSc in Public Health.
After completing her PhD Nasreen has worked as a researcher at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and York. Her intellectual interests have increasingly come to focus on the intersections between health, ethnicity and culture. Her teaching, her research and consultancies are all informed by her interest in the interplay between culture, ethnicity and healthcare.
Nasreen co-ordintates and lectures on two units on the MSc in Public Health: Policies and Issues in Public Health and Diversity in Public Health. Her research experience involves considerable innovation in design, conduct and analysis of a range of methods including surveys, audit data, focus groups, one to one interviews, oral history, discovery interviews and reflective diaries. Nasreen supervises MSc, PhD and Professional Doctorate students' research projects.
Nasreen's recent research projects have been concerned with improving health care for people from minority ethnic backgrounds, exploring the relationships between generational and gender changes, healthcare attitudes and beliefs and access and utilisation of health and welfare services. Some of the research areas have included mental health, consanguinity, cancer, heart failure and congenital heart disease. Nasreen is currently working on and developing research with ethnic minority groups in the areas of mental health, self-harm, prostate cancer and transition services.
Nasreen's publications include journal articles and chapters in books. She is one of the editors of A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, which came out in the United Kingdom in 2006,published by Hurst & Company, London. An American edition of the volume came out in 2008 which was published by Columbia University Press.
Nasreen is a regular reviewer for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) grant applications, Journal of Ethnicity and Health and Clinical Oncology. She is the Diversity Advisor for the NIHR East of England Research and Development Service and is a member of the Royal Society of Public Health.
