Health
We welcome proposals for postgraduate research in all of these areas
- eHealth
- Rehabilitation
- Applied health genetics
- Clinical skills innovation
- Dietetics and health
- Health policy, implementation and organisation
- Health services
- Clinical neurosciences
- Cancer
- Clinical trials
- Drug and drug use
- Health applications of IT
- Health communication and risk
- Nursing
- Occupational therapy and occupational science
- Diabetes
- Infection, immunity and inflammation
- Diagnostics
- Dental health
- Women's health
Postgraduate research opportunities
Although you can do research in any of the areas above, you may wish to look at these programmes:
Our research community
South West Clinical Schools
Linking research with practice to improve patient outcomes across the region
School of Nursing and Midwifery Research
Nationally and internationally significant research
Dietetics, human nutrition and health
Working to further understand the relationship between nutrition and health
Rehabilitation research
A forum for scientists, health care professionals and service users to exchange ideas and develop new research ventures
Participation in everyday life research group
We focus on studies about people, their everyday occupations and the environment
Development and evaluation of complex interventions
Promoting and supporting high quality research, innovation and impact associated with the design and evaluation of complex interventions
Eye and vision research group
Vision is rated as the most important of the five senses; it is responsible for more than 80% of input to the brain
Global health collaborative
A forum for overseas health education, research and sustainability
Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research
From basic research discovering the causes of disease, through to evaluating novel ways of delivering care to the most vulnerable people in society, our thriving community conducts adventurous world-leading research.
Transformation in life course, ageing, methodologies, e-health, technology and interventions in health, social care, lifestyle and wellbeing.
“One aspect of my research was speaking with parents who were searching for a diagnosis for their child. I was trying to understand more about the hoops they had to jump through as they did not have a name for their child’s condition. Some of the findings from this work were used in an application to the National Lottery to set up a support group for parents in this situation (SWAN UK). It was lovely to have something tangible and positive come out of academic research.”
Postgraduate Research Coordinators
If you are thinking about becoming a postgraduate researcher at the University of Plymouth, you are welcome to contact the Postgraduate Research Coordinators in your field of interest.
They will discuss potential supervisors with you and answer any questions you might have about embarking on a research degree in their research area.
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Apply for a postgraduate research programme
Find out how to apply to study on a postgraduate research programme at the University of Plymouth as a home student, an international student, or a studentship candidate.
