Overview
The Health and Social Care DHSC programme from The Open University UK will also be open to people working as carers, whose role involves them working with the health and social care sector. Informal carers, ‘experts by experience’ advocates and ‘expert patients’ may also make an application to the programme. Applicants whose field of practice is through an informal, rather than paid, role, will need to carefully describe their field of practice and what access arrangements would be needed.
The Doctorate in Health and Social Care (DHSC) programme is located within the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) and therefore draws on existing research expertise specifically from within the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport (ECYS) and the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care (HWSC).
How does it work?
The OU does not offer research degrees by distance learning or correspondence. The Professional doctorates are blended-learning part-time research degrees (rather than a distance learning degree or a taught course).
Professional doctorates have a dedicated website for interaction and access to resources.
Career opportunities:
Studying with students on both the EdD and DHSC you will have access to professional researchers across a broad range of education, health and social care fields of practice. This means your study and research will be able to reflect the increasingly multidisciplinary and multi-agency culture of these areas of practice. You will acquire skills in research and enquiry and be able to use these to carry out research that will contribute to professional knowledge and practice. Our doctoral training programme will help you develop transferrable skills that will be invaluable throughout your career.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- The context of education or health and social care research
- Literature reviewing
- The principles of research design
- Research ethics
- Methodology
- Approaches to data collection and analysis.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Social Work Health Sciences Health Education View 8 other PhDs in Health Education in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- You can register for a Professional Doctorate from anywhere in the world.
- Applicants should normally hold, or be expecting to obtain before the start of the degree in October, a Masters Degree in Education or in Health/Social Care, or a related discipline from a UK/EU university or another recognised degree-awarding body. Applicants should also have at least two years of relevant professional experience or, on the DHSC, informal expertise as a carer, expert patient or advocate.
- In exceptional circumstances, applicants who do not have a masters degree may be able to demonstrate suitability for postgraduate level research in relation to the nature and scope of the proposed work. Publications, written reports or other appropriate evidence of previous research may count as such evidence.
Tuition Fee
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International
9107 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 9107 GBP per year during 48 months. -
National
3587 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3587 GBP per year during 48 months.
Living costs for Milton Keynes
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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