Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care (ProfD HaSC)

It is designed so that health and social care professionals can advance their applied research skills, and demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge in their practice. Thus it supports both the professional and their work place to build research capacity and evidence based practice through original research or the original application of existing knowledge or understanding.

Course Structure:

Students will acquire competency as an independent researcher; to design and conduct research and to disseminate the outcomes to others in their field.

The programme structure of taught and independent elements allows students to draw on the range of experiences of fellow-students and the staff team in a mutually supportive environment.

The ProfD HaSC is part time and contains taught study blocks in years 1-2, supported by independent study, whilst years 3-5 are based on a supervised research project.