Doctorate Speech and Language Therapy

PhD

In Colchester

£ 3,100 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    Colchester

  • 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

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Sociology
  • Mental Health
  • Evaluation
  • Public Health
  • Psychology
  • Public
  • Risk
  • IT risk

Course programme

Example structure
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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Additional information

This is not an exhaustive list of staff research interests and more can be found on our School website However, if you are looking to carry out research in a different area to those listed, please contact us to discuss this further We encourage the consideration of brief research proposals prior to the submission of your full application We also offer interdisciplinary programmes which form part of our University’s ESRC Doctoral Training Centre’s pathways in Research Methods in Health and in Health and Organisational Research This follows the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) introducing a new Postgraduate Training Framework, which changed the way it provides support for postgraduate training Our Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) offers 16 fully-funded ESRC studentships across 21 doctoral pathways Please note that a doctoral pathway is the term used to describe the routes to postgraduate study, whether this is a one-year Masters followed by three years of doctoral research (1+3) or three years of doctoral research (+3) for those who have already completed a relevant Masters degree (from another ESRC-accredited DTC or one with a substantial methodological element) Essex has 21 doctoral pathways that are arranged into nine themed clusters and two of these are in the area of health This includes Health and Organisational Research (offered in collaboration with Essex Business School) and in Research Methods in Health (offered in collaboration with our Institute for Social and Economic Research) Our expert staff Our School of Health and Human Sciences has an excellent reputation for research and teaching Our educational provision meets professional regulatory requirements and achieves high standards We do so by having multi-professional staff with both clinical and academic expertise; our staff include sociologists and social policy and management specialists as well as clinically qualified lecturers in adult and mental...

Doctorate Speech and Language Therapy

£ 3,100 + VAT