Research Degrees within the School of Community and Health Sciences
The School of Community and Health Sciences hosts a range of different doctoral research programmes and activities that contribute to our rich and vibrant research culture.
The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rated the research areas of the school extremely favourably.
Areas of research activity
The following index provides a summary of the school's research activities. The School currently supports over one hundred MPhil/PhD students within these areas.
- Advanced Clinical Practice
- Applied Biological Sciences
- Care for Older People
- Disability and Social Inclusion
- eHealth (City eHealth Research Centre)
- Food Policy
- HIV and Sexual Health: Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Research
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Interprofessional Practice
- Investigative, Security and Police Sciences
- Language and Communication
- Long Term Conditions
- Mental Health
- Midwifery
- Nursing
- Optometry
- Applied Vision Research Group
- Visual Neuroscience Group
- Visual Psychophysics and Perception Group
- Imaging and Instrumentation Group - Perinatal Epidemiology
- Professional and Interprofessional Education
- Public Health, Primary Care and Food Policy
- Radiography
- Reproductive and Child Health
- Risk Studies
- Service User Involvement in Research
- Sexualities and Sexual Health
Research degrees offered
The School offers students the opportunity to undertake research degrees in a number of different ways. Doctoral studies normally take three years full time and six years part time to complete.
Traditional MPhil/PhD
Most students choose to undertake their studies in this conventional format. The traditional MPhil/PhD involves writing a thesis based on the candidate’s research, making an original contribution to their field of learning. The process of developing a substantial argument, usually written in the format of a book (not exceeding 100,000 words) is the traditional route to a career in research and or academia.
Structured MPhil/PhD
An increasing number of students in the School are electing to undertake research studies by this alternative route. Click here for further details.
MPhil/PhD by prior publication
This route is intended for people who have already published a number of significant research papers that collectively can be considered to sustain a thesis at doctoral level. Students who register on this route are required to spend one to two years composing an essay of around 20,000 words articulating the thesis that can be identified within their published work.
MPhil/PhD by prospective publication
This route enables students to incorporate publication arising out of their study as they undertake their MPhil/PhD studies.
MPhil
Though most research degree students first register as MPhil students and then transfer to PhD student status (subject to satisfactory progress), students also have the option of completing their study at masters level.
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