Doctorate Speech and Language Therapy
PhD
In Colchester
Description
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Type
PhD
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Location
Colchester
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Duration
7 Years
About the course
Within our multidisciplinary School of Health and Human Sciences, we offer research supervision in the following fields:
analysis of large scale surveys
approaches to pain management
child and adolescent mental health
children with special educational needs
clinical decision making
clinical psychology
cognitive behavioural therapy
consumerism and consumption in health care
cross-cultural mental health
educational psychology
evaluation of psychological treatments
health-related social movements
health-related stigma
health services research
housing and health
how life events and conditions influence health
interpretative policy analysis of health care
mental health services
the third sector and health care provision
nursing theory and practice
physiotherapy education and practice
political economy of health care
post-trauma responses/stress disorder/growth
professional/clinical education and practice
public health management
public health practice and policy
qualitative methods
quantitative methodologies and analysis of large-scale datasets (panel and cohort studies)
service evaluation and development
social aspects of HIV/AIDS
social epidemiology and health inequalities
social inequality and health
social issues around health and the intersection of theories of delinquency and health
social organisation of health care
sociology of happiness and wellbeing
sociology of health and illness
sociology of mental health
sociology of risk
understanding and application of research in health settings
We also offer an MSc by dissertation and an MPhil in this subject
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Subjects
- Sociology
- Mental Health
- Evaluation
- Public Health
- Psychology
- Public
- Risk
- IT risk
Course programme
You can study our Professional Doctorates flexibly between four and seven years. Decisions about the duration of the study period are based on individual need, professional commitments and funded support.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 1
Postgraduate Research Methods
Professional Portfolio 1
Year 2
Theory and Method in Health Research
Professional Portfolio 2
Statistical Analysis (optional)
Qualitative Health Research (optional)
Final year
Health and Human Sciences - Research
Year 4
Health and Human Sciences - Research
Year 5
Health and Human Sciences - Research
Teaching
Taught modules underpin your research activities and meet identified deficits within your knowledge base
Create two portfolios of learning chronicling the development of expert practice
Portfolios are constructed from the specialist application of generic outcomes in areas such as risk and diagnostic reasoning
Portfolios are submitted at the end of year one and year two
Dissertation
Undertake a dissertation of 40,000 words on a subject relevant to your specialist area of practice
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Doctorate Speech and Language Therapy