Healthcare Research PhD

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has a strong tradition of a multidisciplinary approach to research and student training. Our research is ranked as world leading and the focused interaction of scientists, methodologists and clinicians is key to the success of our ‘bench to bedside’ approach. Our staff and students undertake a broad range of clinical, laboratory and educational research across the Keele campus and linked clinical sites across Staffordshire, Shropshire and Oswestry including partnerships with University Hospitals of North Midlands and Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust. We have a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to supervise a PhD Healthcare Research, with backgrounds in: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiographydiagnostic imaging, podiatry, prostheticsorthotics, speechlanguage therapy, sport; exercise physiology; medicine; pharmacy; bioengineering; counselling; social work; paramedic science; and nursing. These colleagues can be found in the Faculty’s Schools of Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy (SAHPP), Medicine, and NursingMidwifery. There is opportunity to work with other supervisors in other Faculties and Schools with expertise in other areas, such as the psychology and neuroscience. We have excellent links with NHS Trusts and other partners across the region where additional supervisors can be located. We have a well-equipped movement analysis laboratory and an exercise physiology laboratory, radiography simulation and imaging suite, prosthetics and orthotics workshop, and a range of other healthcare-related facilities for data collection. Peer support is available via interactions with other post-graduate researchers in a vibrant research environment in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and across the University.

PhD Honours degree with a first or 2.1 classifications, or the equivalent if you have been educated outside the UK.