Project group grows over Summer 2017

The summer of 2017 has been an exciting time for the project, with a new PhD student joining the team (Aisha Al-Sulaiti) and a Masters student (Malavika Subramanian) doing her thesis on a closely related topic.  Caoimhe Ryan continues as our postdoctoral research fellow. Malavika’s Masters thesis has explored the core issues of the link … Read more

Aisha Al-Sulaiti joins the project for her PhD

Aisha joins the project from the State of Qatar and will be examining identity and medical work-related stressors for doctors, trainees and medical students. She will also be expanding the questions to look at cultural identity  in terms of training culture and/or host culture. The project will explore how stressors are dealt with over and above the … Read more

Caoimhe Ryan joins the project as Postdoctoral Fellow

Caoimhe Ryan has been appointed as a part time postdoctoral research fellow to help work on the project, starting in May 2016.  A small pilot grant is supporting our initial interview study looking at Specialists in Emergency Medicine and Oncology. Caoimhe has a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of St Andrews (2016) and MSc … Read more

Self and Identity Processes, Stress, and Resilience: Invited Talk

Symposium on Burnout and Resiliency in Medical Education Participants from across Scotland and further afield gathered in the Gateway building at St Andrews to discuss recent work on building resilience in medical education. The importance of improving the well-being of medical students and professionals has been a growing priority in recent years. As part of … Read more

Kathy McNeil PhD completed

Congratulations to Kathy on completing her corrections and submitting the final thesis for the award of her PhD.  Kathy’s thesis was entitled “An Investigation of Self-Structure, Social Identity and Norms in Medical Student Wellbeing” and several papers have already come out of this line of work.  Kathy’s PhD is part of our “Prevalence to Process” … Read more