We have a very successful PhD programme, which actively supports students to develop and enhance their potential to make a positive impact in improving the health and care of mothers and babies as independent researchers and future leaders locally, nationally and globally. Most of our students work on projects that are explicitly focused upon improving maternity care policy and practice in the UK and in low and middle income countries globally.

PhD Students

Current

• Chiwetalu Otubo. The feasibility and acceptability of a religious leaders’ intervention to promote male involvement in family planning uptake in Southeast region of Nigeria. Director of Studies (DoS): Shuby Puthussery
• Rohit Sagoo. Evaluating the Starting Well Partnership programme in Luton. DoS: Yannis Pappas
• Sajan Thomas. Maternal use of electronic cigarettes and birth defects in new-born: a prospective observational cohort study. DoS: Shuby Puthussery

Completed

• Anand Sivasankara Kurup. Examining inequity in access to institutional delivery in India using the social determinants model. DoS: Shuby Puthussery
• Joy Orpin. Respectful maternity care: Women’s experiences and health care providers perspectives from Nigeria. DoS: Shuby Puthussery
• Louisa Donald. Father’s involvement in pregnancy and early years and its impact on key areas of child development in disadvantaged families in Luton. DoS: Shuby Puthussery
• Pei-Ching Tseng. Effectiveness of postpartum exercise on lower back pain, physical endurance, and changes in core muscles among postpartum women in Taiwan. DoS: Shuby Puthussery
• Puremeluan Major. Attitudes and perceptions of pregnant women about the use of Antiretroviral Therapy for prevention of mother to child transmission in Nigeria. DoS: Shuby Puthussery
• Rebecca Garcia. Perinatal mortality in Pakistani, Bangladeshi and White British mothers in Luton. DoS: Nasreen Ali
• Mubashir Ajaz. Examining the sociocultural impacts of consanguinity and implication for health care. DoS: Nasreen Ali
• Valencia Kabeya. Can Health Parties increase the awareness, knowledge and uptake of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer amongst women from ethnic minority groups in the UK: a feasibility quasi-experimental trial  DoS: Shuby Puthussery