Nursing Studies University of Essex

Overview

We recognise and understand the importance of continuing professional development for students and have designed this course for students who do not have English as a first language and may have been studying in a different country, or out of a traditional academic environment for some time.

This is a tailor-made course that seeks to combine skills and enhanced subject specific research proposals to give you the best underpinning for your doctoral studies. A core aim of the course is for students to refine English language for scholarly communication, enhance academic skills for postgraduate study, hone higher-level research skills, and master how to study and manage academic work in the UK context.

The course is comprised of the following elements:

• English language for postgraduate research studies

• Academic skills for postgraduate research studies

• Research skills for nursing studies

• Research proposal

• Studying and researching in the UK

Why we're great.

• The School of Health and Social Care offers a multidisciplinary environment with an excellent reputation for research and teaching.

• The staff are multi-professional, and include clinically-qualified lecturers, sociologists and social policy and management specialists.

• The staff work with local NHS Trusts and other local agencies, which enhances the grasp of the contemporary links between academic research, the major issues of the day and practice.