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Prof. Suzie Skevington holds a Personal Chair in Health Psychology at University of Bath. As Director of the World Health Organisation Centre for the Study of Quality of Life (http://www.bath.ac.uk/whoqol/), Prof. Skevington is dedicated to the cross-cultural understanding of quality of life in health and health care, and collaborates with researchers in over 50 countries world-wide. She currently works in the broad areas of global public health and positive psychology.
Her main research focuses on the assessment and conceptualisation of quality of life and well-being relating to decision-making in health care; HIV and AIDS; spiritual, religious and personal beliefs; active ageing; young children and adolescents; early dementia and their carers; exercise; the workplace; social inequalities and poverty; biodiversity and environmental health, also on chronic pain, depression and breathlessness. Author of ‘Psychology of Pain’ (Wiley, 1995/2009) and co-author of five other volumes, she has published around 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters and official reports.
RESEARCH PROPOSAL - You must write your own research proposal on this topic. See our website at http://www.bath.ac.uk/study/pg/programmes/mphi-psyc for further details.
Funding Notes:
Prof. Skevington will now consider applications for Entry 2013 from those applicants who are happy to compete for University and Graduate School funding or obtain external funding. Funding is difficult to obtain and highly competitive. You are responsible for researching sources of funding early (in some cases up to 12 months in advance) and applying (in conjunction with your agreed supervisor) for as many as possible. Please see the webpages at http://www.bath.ac.uk/hss/graduate-school/pgr-scholarships-studentships.html for further details.
References:
The WHOQOL-SRPB Group (2006). A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion and personal beliefs as components of quality of life. Social Science & Medicine, 62, (2) 1486-1497.
Skevington SM, Day R, Chisholm A & Trueman P (2005) How much do doctors use quality of life information in primary care? Testing the Trans-Theoretical model of behaviour change. Quality of Life Research, 14, (4) 911-922.
Skevington SM, & O’Connell KA (2004) Can we identify the poorest quality of life? Assessing the importance of quality of life using the WHOQOL-100. Quality of Life Research, 13, (1) 23-34.
O'Connell K, Skevington S, Saxena S & the WHOQOL HIV Group (2003) Preliminary development of the World Health Organisation’s Quality of Life HIV instrument (WHOQOL-HIV): analysis of the pilot version. Social Science & Medicine 57, (7) 1259-1275.