PhD/MPhil Nursing

Working closely with clinical partners from health and social care, world class researchers and experienced practitioners, this degree will extend your knowledge across the many and varied nursing fields, enhancing your future career prospects. You can tailor your degree’s content to your own interests. It will involve primary research to enable you to make a unique and original contribution to the body of evidence that underpins nursing practice. You may work in any one of the many different nursing fields including adult, children’s, mental health, older persons or acute and critical care nursing. This will enable you to develop an expert knowledge base to conduct in-depth independent research. Your research will be embedded in your area of practice. It will work towards improving the outcomes of the patients, service users, clinicians or students you work with. You will work closely with your supervisor and also benefit from our academics in the School of Health & Psychological Sciences. Our expertise span a broad range of healthcare disciplines, methodological fields of expertise and professional areas. You’ll be learning in a stimulating environment where researchers and students from diverse backgrounds research, learn and work together. The Full-time duration is 2 – 4 years; Part time: 3 – 7 years and PhD by prior publication: 1 – 2 years.

Entry requirements vary by subject area and applicants should approach academic staff working in their area of interest to discuss their proposal ahead of submitting an application. Applicants should normally hold an upper second class honours degree or the equivalent from an international institution. Where the applicants academic profile shows no evidence of training in research methods, it will normally be recommended that students first complete an MSc or MRes programme to prepare them for MPhil/PhD studies. Substantial employment or research experience may be considered for some subject areas alongside or in place of academic qualifications.