Purva Abhyankar

Research Fellow

 Purva's research interests are in the area of applying psychological theories to facilitate informed and shared decision making in healthcare and patient-professional communication.

Purva read for undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Psychology from Pune University, India. She came to the UK in 2002 to pursue a postgraduate qualification (MSc) in Health Psychology at the University of Leeds. After her post-graduate studies at Leeds, Purva went back to India to work as a Research officer at the Foundation for Research in Community Health, a non-governmental organisation. Purva worked on a project aiming to set up a community-based health care system in rural India, and was part of a team developing a research proposal to investigate the impact and effectiveness of the system.

Purva returned to the UK in 2004 to pursue a PhD at University of Leeds in the area of "Facilitating informed decision making about clinical trial participation in the context of breast and ovarian cancer". This research draws on theoretical frameworks from health psychology and behavioural science to inform the development of interventions aimed at improving decision making quality in healthcare. She is currently writing up her thesis.

Purva joined the Psychosocial Oncology and Clinical Practice Research Group in October 2007. Her work within the group is centred on integrating the decision support approaches into the physicians' training programme, which aims to facilitate the discussion of quality of life issues in routine oncology practice.

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