PhD projects
The Pain Relief Foundation (PRF) provides grants to fund research on the mechanisms or relief of human chronic pain. Some of the projects listed below were funded by the PRF.
PhD projects currently accepting applicants are listed below:
| Title | Institution |
Supervisors |
Link |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Social safety learning in the context of pain |
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) | Dr Charlotte Krahé, Dr Ann Meulders, Dr Susannah Walker | Click here for more information |
Current PhD students, and the names of their projects, are listed below:
|
Name |
Email Address |
Project Title |
Supervisor |
Department |
|
Marie Shorrock |
marie.Shorrock@liverpool.ac.uk |
Perceptual and associative learning of pain |
Christopher Brown, Nick Fallon, Andrej Stancak |
Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool |
|
Eleanor Brian |
Eleanor.Brian@liverpool.ac.uk |
Central nociceptive plasticity in chronic pain |
Christopher Brown, Andrej Stancak |
Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool |
|
Hanaa Alonezi |
H.Alonezi@liverpool.ac.uk |
Cerebral mechanisms of mindfulness for chronic pain |
Christopher Brown, Nick Fallon |
Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool |
|
Danielle Hewitt |
d.hewitt@liverpool.ac.uk |
Neural predictors of therapeutic success of spinal cord stimulation in neuropathic pain patients |
Dr Andrej Stancak |
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool |
|
Richard Berwick |
berwick.rj@gmail.com |
Autoimmune Phenotyping in Fibromyalgia |
Prof Andreas Goebel |
Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool |
|
Adarsh Makdani |
a.makdani@ljmu.ac.uk |
Developing an opioid intervention for chronic non-cancer pain patients in primary care |
Prof Francis McGlone Dr Susannah Walker Dr David Moore |
Natural Science and Psychology, LJMU. |
|
Rebecca Horst-Atkinson |
R.S.HortAtkinson@2012.ljmu.ac.uk |
Chronic Pelvic Pain and Persistent Post-Surgical Pain: A Mindfulness-Based Intervention |
Dr Peter Malinowski, Dr Helen Poole, Laura Mirams |
Natural Science and Psychology, LJMU. |
|
Harvery Neiland |
hlhneila@liverpool.ac.uk |
CRPS serum-IgG binding to rodent dorsal root ganglia (DRG tissue and cells) and analysis of DRG inflammation |
Prof Andreas Goebel |
Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool |
|
Rebecca Mountford |
rmount@liverpool.ac.uk |
Neural-immune interactions in fibromyalgia syndrome flare episodes |
Dr Nick Fallon, Prof Andreas Goebel |
Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool |
If you are a current PhD student, or have a project you wish to advertise, please contact R.mountford@liverpool.ac.uk