Ongoing PhD Projects

Find more information about the ongoing PhD work linked to ARIG

Exploring the interplay between social support and alcohol consumption 

Funding: Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Programme(2017-2021) 

PhD Student: Philippa Case 

Supervisors: Professor Annie Britton, Dr Paola Zaninotto, Dr Fiona Aspinal 

Project summary:  

This is a mixed methods study using secondary data from the National Child Development Study and the UK Household Longitudinal Study and primary data from semi structured interviews to address the following research aims: 

  1. To explore the population-level relationship between social support and alcohol consumption at different stages of the life course 

  1. To explore the lived experience of the interplay between perceptions of social support, alcohol consumption, attempts to reduce or stop drinking and access to support and/or treatment services 

 

Trajectories of alcohol consumption and association with prognosis in patients with cardiovascular disease. 

 PhD student: Chengyi Ding 

 Supervisors: Professor Annie Britton, Dr Dara O’Neill. 

 Summary of research: This research will use several UK-based cohorts to define alcohol consumption trends among patients who have experienced a first-ever, non-fatal cardiovascular event (including coronary heart disease and stroke), and to investigate the longitudinal association between alcohol use and prognosis.