This page lists past SSC projects supervised by members of the Primary Care Unit, ordered by year, going back to 2015. You can also see our past practice based SSC projects here, supervised by GP tutors.
2020 projects
Ian Holdroyd
SSC Project: An investigation into the effects of paternal mental heath on a child. A more specific title will be organised and decided on a little later on.
Supervisor: Dr Robbie Duschinsky & Dr Barry Coughlan
Mohammed Islam
SSC Project: AI Applied to the Early Diagnosis of Skin Cancer.
Supervisor: Dr Owain Jones
Harshil Kalaiya
SSC Project: Comparison of uptake of remote screening for atrial fibrillation with other national screening programmes.
Supervisor: Dr Jenny Lund
Sophie Koh
SSC Project: Developing a training library of ECGs with which to train reviewers.
Supervisor: Dr Pete Charlton
Clare Pearson
SSC Project: Analysis of qualitative data: Carers of Patients with HFpEF.
Supervisor: Professor Christi Deaton
Jaeeun Sung
SSC Project: Exploring the long-term needs of stroke patients in primary care.
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Mant
Max Tagg
SSC Project: The use of tests for diagnosing/detecting cancer early in primary care.
Supervisor: Dr Natalia Calanzani
Stephanie Yung
SSC Project: Systematic review of the use of artificial intelligence in identification of skin cancer in general practice.
Supervisor: Dr Owain Jones
Zhiqing Zhang
SSC project: Post-stroke communication impairments: unmet needs of patients and carers identified through an online stroke community.
Supervisor: Dr Anna Simoni
2019 projects
Florence Alexander
SSC Project: Visual feedback of patients’ medical imaging results for changing health behaviour.
Supervisor: Dr Juliet Usher-Smith & Professor Simon Griffin
Dawnya Behiyat
SSC Project: Determining which biomarkers are ready for implementation in primary care for use in early detection and diagnosis of gastro-intestinal cancers.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter
Kethaki Prathivadi Bhayankaram
SSC Project: Establishing which modalities of artificial intelligence (AI) for early detection and diagnosis of cancer are ready for implementation in primary care: a Systematic Review.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter & Dr Owain Jones
George Farmer
SSC Project: Updating a systematic review on type 2 diabetes incidence among postpartum women diagnosed with gestational diabetes during their pregnancy.
Supervisor: Becky Dennison
Rana Hasan
SSC Project: Visual feedback of patients’ medical imaging results for changing health behaviour.
Supervisor: Dr Juliet Usher-Smith & Professor Simon Griffin
Collette Russell
SSC Project: How do parental attitudes to mental health affect the treatment outcomes of children and young people with mental health problems (both positively and negatively)?
Supervisor: Dr Melody Turner
Will Wright
SSC Project: Medicine Adherence.
Supervisor: Dr Anna De Simoni
2018 projects
Fareera Ahmed
SSC Project: Review of international clinical guidelines and recommendations on long-term care after stroke.
Supervisor: Dr Ricky Mullis & Dr Lisa Lim
Sara Ali
SSC project: The needs and experiences of stroke patients and their carers expressed through an online forum.
Supervisor: Dr Anna Simoni
Owen Crawford
SSC Project: Determining the common elements of evidence-based attachment-related parenting interventions and their applicability to children with intellectual disability.
Supervisor: Dr Robbie Duschinsky
Lydia Dean
SSC Project: Secondary stroke prevention in primary care: Exploring current practices.
Supervisor: Dr Ricky Mullis
Laragh Harvey-Kelly
SSC Project: Attitudes/acceptability of kidney cancer screening and likely uptake of screening.
Supervisor: Dr Juliet Usher-Smith
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33115457/
Amol Joshi
SSC Project: CanTest program for cancer screening in primary care.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walters
Nithya Kadiyala
SSC Project: Secondary stroke prevention in primary care: Exploring current practices.
Supervisor: Dr Ricky Mullis
Monty Matson
SSC Project: Comparing aspects of care between patients diagnosed with kidney cancer via emergency and non-emergency routes: a longitudinal study using CPRD data linked to HES and Cancer Registry data.
Supervisor: Dr Yin Zhou
Ben Paxton
SSC Project: Risk based brief interventions to prevent cancer and promote behaviour change.
Supervisor: Dr Katie Mills
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32967842/
Karolina Prylinska
SSC Project: A review of methodology of obtaining data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) in recent publications on a specified condition.
Supervisor: Dr Jenny Lund
Charindu Ranmuthu
SSC Project: CanRisk programme: creating a tool to assess the risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walters
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31734824/
Jasper Rossi
SSC Project: A qualitative synthesis of clinicians’ views towards screening for type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes.
Supervisor: Dr Becky Dennison
Samir YepManzano
SSC Project: CanTest program for cancer screening in primary care.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walters
2017 SSC projects
Lydia Dean
SSC Project: Stroke in the community; primary care research, interface between the stroke unit and the community.
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Lim
Chloe Gamlin
SSC Project: The health promotion role of primary care in disadvantaged communities.
Supervisor: Dr Jo Scrivens
Clarissa Hjalmarsson
SSC Project: Understanding Post-Stroke Fatigue: A Clinical Perspective
Supervisor: Dr Karen Thomas
Read article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31826895/
George Harding-Perrott
SSC Project: Exploring systematic reviewing techniques via research into primary care handling of uterine cancer diagnosis.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter
Sara Khoshnaw
SSC Project: How does information diffusion in online communities about post-stroke fatigue?
Supervisor: Dr Anna De Simoni
Maxine Meju
SSC Project: Stroke prevention and treatment in primary care settings; screening for atrial fibrillation. Stroke in the community; primary care research, interface between the stroke unit and the community.
Supervisor: Dr Jenny Lund & Professor Jonathan Mant
Jake Tobin
SSC Project: Who is referred to hospice and who is not? A systematic literature review
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Read article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30115018/
Mrudala Utikuri
SSC Project: Melanoma detection in UK primary care using dermoscopy.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter
Ajanth Varathanathan
SSC Project: Screening for atrial fibrillation at annual influenza vaccination of patients aged over 65; a cohort study.
Supervisor: Dr Jenny Lund
2016 projects
Matthew Alexander
SSC Project: The needs and experiences of stroke patients and their carers expressed through an online forum.
Supervisor: Supervisor: Dr Anna De Simoni
Sarah Chowienczyk
SSC Project: Review of international clinical guidelines and recommendations on long-term care after stroke.
Supervisor: Dr Ricky Mullis
Jonathan Clark
SSC Project: What is the evidence that improving primary care reduces rate of admission for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions?
Supervisor: Professor Martin Roland
Alexander Day
SSC Project: Remission rates in type 2 diabetes: A cohort analysis from the ADDITION-Cambridge trial.
Supervisor: Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller
Rebecca Ferris
SSC Project: Minority Ethnic patients and experiences of primary care.
Supervisor: Dr Jenni Burt
John Foreman
SSC Project: Student Attitudes and Emotions to Dissection at Cambridge University.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Fiona Huang
SSC Project: Patients’ experience of safety-netting in primary care consultations for skin lesions.
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Llanwarne
Rhys Mantle
SSC Project: HFpEF Systematic Review.
Supervisor: Professor Christi Deaton
Read article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31978280/
Qasim Massod
SSC Project: Ethnic minority experiences of primary care.
Supervisor: Dr Jenni Burt
Vicki Morely
SSC Project: Student Attitudes and Emotions to Dissection at Cambridge University.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Millie Ngaage
SSC Project: Patients’ experience of safety-netting in primary care consultations for skin lesions.
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Llanwarne
Ahmed Nisar
SSC Project: Health Services Research.
Supervisor: Dr Jenni Burt
Quang Nguyen
SSC Project: Stroke Rehabilitation: interface between the stroke unit and the community.
Supervisor: Dr Ricky Mullis
Bhavna Ramachandran
SSC Project: A systematic review of breast cancer incidence risk prediction models with meta-analysis of their performance.
Supervisor: Dr Chantal Babb de Villiers
Nabila Rehnnuma
SSC Project: Breast Cancer risk prediction project, CanRisk.
Supervisor: Dr Chantal Babb de Villiers
Maria Seago
SSC Project: Early detection of symptomatic cancer BRAcED study.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walters & Dr Clarissa Penfold
Khojasta Talash
SSC Project: Minority Ethnic Patients and experience of GP care.
Supervisor: Dr Jenni Burt
Josh Wade
SSC Project: How do within-person ratings of breathlessness “on average” and “at worst” on a numerical rating scale (NRS) compare in advanced COPD?
Supervisor: Dr Morag Farquhar
Erin Weatherstone
SSC Project: Screening for Atrial Fibrillation and the use of general practice “big data”.
Supervisor: Dr Jenny Lund
Ben Worsfold
SSC Project: Bereavement care in General Practice.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
2015 projects
Richard Anderson
SSC Project: Health economics: value of information analysis .
Supervisor: Dr Ed Wilson
Jonathan Bates-Powell
SSC Project: Primary care prevention of strokes from Atrial Fibrillation.
Supervisor: Dr Duncan Edwards
Sarah Chowienczyk
SSC Project: Comparison of descriptors of breathlessness between patients with advanced malignant and non-malignant conditions.
Supervisor: Dr Morag Farquhar
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27233139/
Lucia Coulter
SSC Project: E-cigarette Marketing Analysis.
Supervisor: Dr Milica Vasiljevic
Elizabeth Evans
SSC Project: A study of healthcare professionals’ views concerning the existential care of agnostic patients towards the end of life.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Emma Finnerty
SSC Project: Care in the last days of life for those with a dementia diagnosis in an acute hospital setting.
Supervisor: Dr Anna Spathis
Fiona Huang
SSC Project: Cancer prevention and early diagnosis: patients views on ebbing diagnosed with melanoma
Supervisor: Dr Katie Mills
Molly Hunt
SSC Project: A clinical audit of the palliative care services, with a focus on paediatric/adolescent care.
Supervisor: Dr Anna Spathis
Sarah Jackman
SSC Project: Qualitative investigation into factors that could improve the services designed to support student’s psychological welfare at the School of Clinical Medicine.
Supervisor: Dr Thelma Quince
Grace Langford
SSC Project: Ceilings of care discussions and how there are communicated between hospitals and the community
Supervisor: Professor Martin Roland
Alfie Lloyd
SSC Project: A study of healthcare professionals’ views concerning the existential care of agnostic patients towards the end of life.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25413562/
Sophie Lovak
SSC Project: Medication taking experiences in the travelling community: a systematic review.
Supervisor: Dr Ahmed Rashid
Ella Mi and Emma Mi
SSC Project: Infant self-regulation and symbolic play in the context of high-conflict divorce.
Supervisor: Dr Robbie Duschinsky
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29606864/
Ella Mi and Emma Mi
SSC Project: Do patients and carers agree on symptom burden (reporting of a range of symptoms and numerical rating scale (NRS) scores for breathlessness)?
Supervisor: Dr Morag Farquhar
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29033562/
Daniel Ng
SSC Project: Using CPRD to study Atrial Fibrillation.
Supervisor: Dr Duncan Edwards
Chidera Ota
SSC Project: Review of international clinical guidelines and recommendations on long-term care after stroke.
Supervisor: Dr Ricky Mullis
Parth Patel
SSC Project: Why do patients stop taking their medications?
Supervisor: Dr Ahmed Rashid
Ravi Patel
SSC Project: Primary care prevention of strokes from atrial fibrillation.
Supervisor: Dr Duncan Edwards
Alice Rogers
SSC Project: Who is referred to hospice and who is not? A systematic literature review.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Tom Ronan
SSC Project: Why do patients stop taking their medications?
Supervisor: Dr Ahmed Rashid
Nipuna Senaratne
SSC Project: A systematic review of interventions to improve exercise/physical activity adherence in patients with heart failure.
Supervisor: Dr Ian Wellwood
Tessa Stewart
SSC Project: Identification and analysis of the contribution of the factors that result in a high burden of cervical cancer in sub-Saharan African women.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter
Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877782118300304
Catherine Turberfield
SSC Project: Intolerance of uncertainty – a review and data analysis.
Supervisor: Dr Robbie Duschinsky
Tom Weatherby
SSC Project: Breast feeding as a risk factor for breast cancer: a review of data collection.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter
Michelle Willmott
SSC Project: Comparing Kerala, India and Cambridge, the UK: a study of doctors’ and nurses’ attitudes towards palliative care.
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Barclay
Article: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/files/2018/09/Willmott-Kingdon-Barclay-2015-PCU.pdf
Stephan Woodman
SSC Project: Breast feeding as a risk factor for breast cancer: a review of data collection.
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Walter