Sonia Tomescu-Stachie

Biography

I am a South Coast Doctoral Training funded PhD candidate based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. The best way to explain my PhD proposal is that my supervisors and I are looking at exploring the implications of online shared reading (oSR) on emotional distress and quality of life (QoL) in people suffering from endometrial cancer. This project builds upon my previous MSc interests, where I delivered 6 weekly sessions of oSR in adults suffering from anxiety and depression.

My academic and professional development is a work in progress, but I have been lucky enough to have graduated from Portsmouth University with a distinction in MSc in Health Psychology and a first-class BSc in Psychology from Nottingham Trent University. Additionally, I have extensive experience in working within primary and secondary care, the latter as an Honorary Assistant Psychologist at Macmillan Clinical Psychology Service. This experience means I am skilled at optimising clinical workflows, working in a multi-disciplinary (MDT) setting, attending face-to-face and online patient assessments, and more.

Altogether, this is why the research I am interested in fits in the Population Change, Health & Wellbeing (PCHW) Thematic Cluster Pathway. The idea is that conducting such research will offer both innovation and potential policy influence in terms of NICE guidance for endometrial cancer patients.

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