Fiona Ulph

Fiona Ulph is a Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Methods at the Division of Psychology & Mental Health, University of Manchester. She serves as Co-director for the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology and a Senior Qualitative Advisor for the NIHR North West Research Design Service. Her work focuses on psychosocial aspects of genetic technologies, children's roles in healthcare, and qualitative research in rare diseases.

Education:

• BSc Hons Psychology, University of York (1998)
• MSc Health Psychology, King’s College London (1999)
• PhD Psychology, University of Nottingham (2007)

Her research examines professional-parent-child communication, genetic risk assimilation, newborn screening models, and children's consent capacity in clinical trials. She specializes in thematic analysis, IPA, and grounded theory with a focus on pediatric populations and conflict/displacement contexts.

Recent publications emphasize risk-stratified screening, genetic counseling frameworks, and novel diagnostic technologies. She supervises doctoral students in areas spanning genomics, refugee parenting programs, and health equity, with projects contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals (Healthier Futures). Fiona is a Chartered Psychologist and actively involved in rare disease advocacy through podcast series and public engagement.