Health & Social Care (Research Division)

Our PhD programme in Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Services Research provides research training in these fields to well qualified graduate students. Our principal investigators are able to provide supervision across a range of disciplines and empirical topics.

Disciplinary expertise includes statistics, epidemiology, and the social and behavioural sciences (sociology, health and decision psychology, anthropology, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and health economics). Empirical areas include stroke, diabetes, musculoskeletal conditions, transplantation medicine, COPD, medical decision making, and translational research. Areas of methodological expertise include, randomised controlled trials of complex interventions, population registers and utilisation of large routine data sets, clinical research informatics and ethnography and qualitative methods.