Health Professional Doctorate Keele University

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• Evaluate and reflect on the core skills that are required for effective communication at an interpersonal and organizational level.
• Critically assimilate the current political challenges in health and social care and the role that culture, power and politics plays when communicating with organizations in this context.
• Critically analyse and appraise the key elements of productive team working, including effective management of workforce conflicts, and how these can inform planned change processes.
• Identify and apply strategies for implementing a change process and for networking across boundaries to build relationships and share information, plans and resources.
• Critically reflect on the key characteristics and skills of an effective leader and how these can be used to implement change in the workplace.
• Demonstrate a critical awareness of the principles of research and evaluation.