The success of the growing Postgraduate research degrees and PhD study in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, has evolved to create a number of PhD opportunities specific to the  interests of staff in the PGMI.  These students will commence in September 2016, and will contribute to the research themes and our developing research portfolio. Current projects are as follows:

Title	Student	Supervisors
Tackling the evidence for patient safety in ambulance services	Keegan Shepard	Professor Sally Spencer and Dr Carol Kelly – Faculty of Health and Social Care Paresh Wankhade – Business School; David Radcliffe – Director of Research, North West Ambulance NHS Trust.
Evaluation of training requirements for NHS ambulance service paramedics recruited from the EU	Kacper Sumera	Professor Sally Spencer and Dr Jeremy Brown – Faculty of Health and Social Care; Paresh Wankhade – Business School; David Radcliffe – Director of Research, North West Ambulance NHS Trust.
Promoting cardiac rehabilitation adherance	Eleanor Whittaker	Dr Andy Levy – EHU- Dept of Psychology; Prof Adrian Midgley – EHU Dept of Sport & Physical Activity; Dr Bashir Matata – Head of Clinical Trials – Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital