Beth Grunfeld – Professor of Health Psychology
e.grunfeld at bbk.ac.uk
Prof Grunfeld’s research focuses on determinants of psychosocial outcomes following diagnosis and treatment (mainly among patients with benign and non-benign lesions) and on the development of interventions to support patients.
Anne Miles – Professor of Health Psychology
ae.miles at bbk.ac.uk
Professor Miles’ research focuses on patient preferences for, and psychological consequences of, different diagnostic and treatment pathways, as well as public awareness of risk factors for cancer.
Nazanin Derakhshan – Professor of Experimental Psychopathology and Founder of the BRiC Centre (Birkbeck Centre for Building Resilience in Breast Cancer). Now at Reading University n.derakhshan@reading.ac.uk
@ProfNDerakshan (twitter)
Prof Derakshan’s research focuses on understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms behind anxiety and depressive vulnerability and targeting those mechanisms to build resilience and longer term psychological well-being using cognitive interventions
PhD students
Current:
Ogechi Anokwuru: Help-seeking among migrant populations in the UK. Supervisors: Professors Beth Grunfeld and Anne Miles.
Laura Phillips-Farmer: Building on the pathways approach to homelessness - interactions between demographic, structural, individual, and psycho-social factors in UK life courses. Supervisors: Professor Fiona Tasker and Professor Anne Miles.
Claudia Redeker: The psychological impact of living with a stoma. Supervisors: Professor Anne Miles and Professor Beth Grunfeld
Theodore Veniamin: Psychological Factors impacting on work in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Supervisors: Professor Anne Miles and Professor Beth Grunfeld
Completed:
Jacqueline Allan: Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders in those with Type 1 Diabetes. Supervisors: Professor Anne Miles and Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Bethany Chapman: Efficacy of neurocognitive training as an intervention targeting workability in breast cancer. Supervisors: Professor Naz Derakhshan and Professor Beth Grunfeld
Syreen Hassan: Enhancing understanding of the likelihood and consequences of peripheral neuropathy following adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer. Supervisors: Professor Anne Miles and Dr Melanie Morris (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
Melina Makasori: The impact of food allergy and food challenge testing on health-related quality of life and emotional distress in adults. Supervisors: Professor Anne Miles and Professor Denis Mareschal.
Rosemary McCracken: A longitudinal exploration of the lived experience of male breast cancer. Supervisors: Dr Virge Eatough and Professor Beth Grunfeld
Jessica Eleanor Swainston: Neurocognitive mechanisms and interventions targeting emotional vulnerability and building resilience in breast cancer
Supervisors: Professor Nazanin Derakhshan and Professor Johnathan Smith
