Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of primary care, prescribing, older people, medicines optimisation. Most projects which students undertake are mixed methods in nature i.e using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including trials.
Current Research Opportunities
Public outreach & key achievements
Carmel was the first pharmacist to have been appointed to a Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy (1998-99) which she spent at the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Carmel is the only pharmacist to have been awarded a National Primary Care Career Scientist Award. She received the British Pharmaceutical Conference 2001 Practice Research medal. She is a Senior Editor for BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies and an Editor for the EPOC Group in the Cochrane Collaboration. She is also a member of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Unit of Assessment 3 Sub-panel for REF 2021, the Scientific Advisory Panel for Pharmacy Research UK, the International Scientific Council (ISC) of the Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences External Advisory Board and a member of the International Advisory Board of the School for Primary Care Research (funded by the National Institute for Health Research-NIHR). She is a Trustee and Board Member of the Dunhill Medical Trust, a leading UK charity which funds research focusing on older people and a member of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Stage 2 Sub-Committee.
Research students
Name: Ameerah Hasan Ibrahim
PhD title: The role of primary care pharmacists
Years of Study: 2018-2021
Country: Jordan
Name: Basma Kentab
PhD title: Medication use challenges in visually impaired patients
Years of Study: 2017-2021
Country: Saudi Arabia
Name: Mubarak Alqahtani
PhD title: Appropriate polypharmacy in older people
Years of Study: 2020-2023
Country: Saudi Arabia
Name: Hanadi Al-Shaker
PhD title: Development of a core outcome set for adherence
Years of Study: 2021-2024
Country: Jordan
Name: Abrar Hassan F. Hassan
PhD title: Pharmacists in primary care
Years of Study: 2021-2024
Country: Saudi Arabia
Alumni: Where are they now
Name: Prof. Mayyada Wazaify
PhD Title: Appropriate use of non-prescription drugs
Years of Study: 2000-2003
Country: Jordan
Current Position: Professor of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, University of Jordan and Adjunct Professor in Social Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland
Name: Dr. Marie Bradley
PhD title: Investigation of the role of pharmacological exposures in the aetiology and survival of pancreatic cancer
Years of Study: 2006-2009
Country: N. Ireland and now, USA
Current position: Lead Pharmacoepidemiologist in the Division of Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration.
Name: Dr. Hoa Nguyen
PhD Title: Antimicrobial stewardship in care homes for older people: development of a core outcome set
Years of Study: 2017-2020
Country: Vietnam
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City