Nursing and health sciences PhD and research degrees

The School of Health Sciences strives to transform lives through applied health research, taking place in a vibrant research community within our School and the wider University. We provide a supportive environment, creating safe spaces for discussion of research and personal development. We are committed to working with our students and applicants to ensure their experience is positive, enjoyable, and productive. We have had consistently excellent student feedback, via the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES), and we will continue to provide a first-class student experience within the School.

Our primary research themes align with the University themes of Population Health and Wealth and Equity and Inclusion and primarily the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good Health and Well-being. They are:

• Understanding health: exploring people’s experience of health and the challenges of providing equitable healthcare
• Innovation in health: developing and testing interventions that contribute to positive health outcomes for .
• Improving health service delivery: design for practice change, quality and safety, equity, service improvement and evidence implementation.

Our research groupings build on our existing strengths and reflect the interests and experience of our staff, they are:

• Healthy active ageing
• Improvement and implementation
• Living well with long term conditions
• Mother, infant and child
• Substance use

Methodological expertise includes:

• Evidence synthesis
• Health Technology Assessment
• Health and Social Care Delivery
• Global Health
• Public Health
• Place based initiatives
• Patient Reported Outcome and Experience Measures (PROMS and PREMS)
• Behavioural Science
• Intervention development and testing
• Implementation studies

We look forward to receiving applications to study with us in areas aligned to our research groups.

Learn more about research in the School of Health Sciences