This is not an exhaustive list of staff research interests and more can be found on our School website. However, if you are looking to carry out research in a different area to those listed, please contact us to discuss this further. We encourage the consideration of brief research proposals prior to the submission of your full application.
Physiotherapy, Ph.D.
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- 36 monthsDuration
- Tuition3100Tuition (Year)
- English (take IELTS)Language
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We also offer interdisciplinary programmes which form part of our University’s ESRC Doctoral Training Centre’s pathways in Research Methods in Health and in Health and Organisational Research. This follows the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) introducing a new Postgraduate Training Framework, which changed the way it provides support for postgraduate training. Our Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) offers 16 fully-funded ESRC studentships across 21 doctoral pathways.
Please note that a doctoral pathway is the term used to describe the routes to postgraduate study, whether this is a one-year Masters followed by three years of doctoral research (1+3) or three years of doctoral research (+3) for those who have already completed a relevant Masters degree (from another ESRC-accredited DTC or one with a substantial methodological element). Essex has 21 doctoral pathways that are arranged into nine themed clusters and two of these are in the area of health. This includes Health and Organisational Research (offered in collaboration with Essex Business School) and in Research Methods in Health (offered in collaboration with our Institute for Social and Economic Research).
Why study PhD Physiotherapy at Essex?
Our School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences offers a multidisciplinary environment with an excellent reputation for research and teaching. Within our School, our educational provision meets professional regulatory requirements and achieves high standards. We do so by having staff that are multi-professional, including clinically-qualified lecturers, sociologists and social policy and management specialists, so they have clinical and academic credibility.
A unique feature of our School is that many of our staff work with local National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and other local agencies, which enhances our grasp of the contemporary links between academic research, the major issues of the day and practice. We specialise in applied, multidisciplinary research that addresses issues of national and international concern to health policy and practice and related fields. We have research interest groups in ‘Developing Professional Practice’ and ‘Applied Health Research’, and host the NIHR Research Design Service for the East of England.
Accreditation
Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Privy Council, University of Essex is a large (uniRank enrollment range: 10,000-14,999 students) coeducational higher education institution. University of Essex offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study.
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- Full-time duration 36 months
- Study intensity Full-time
- Languages
- English
- Delivery mode On Campus
Programme Structure
Within our multidisciplinary School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, we offer research supervision in the following fields:
- approaches to pain management;
- child and adolescent mental health;
- children with special educational needs;
- clinical decision making;
- clinical psychology;
- cognitive behavioural therapy;
- consumerism and consumption in health care;
- cross-cultural mental health;
- educational psychology;
- evaluation of psychological treatments;
- health-related social movements;
- health-related stigma;
- health services research;
- housing and health;
- how life events and conditions influence health;
- interpretative policy analysis of health care;
- mental health services;
- the third sector and health care provision;
- nursing theory and practice;
- physiotherapy education and practice;
- political economy of health care;
- post-trauma responses/stress disorder/growth;
- professional/clinical education and practice;
- public health management;
- public health practice and policy;
- qualitative methods;
- quantitative methodologies and analysis of large-scale datasets (panel and cohort studies) ;
- service evaluation and development;
- social aspects of HIV/AIDS;
- social epidemiology and health inequalities;
- social inequality and health;
- social issues around health and the intersection of theories of delinquency and health;
- social organisation of health care;
- sociology of happiness and wellbeing;
- sociology of health and illness;
- sociology of mental health;
- sociology of risk;
- analysis of large scale surveys;
English Language Requirements
You need the following IELTS score:
- Minimum required score: 6.5
The IELTS – or the International English Language Test System – tests your English-language abilities (writing, listening, speaking, and reading) on a scale of 1.00–9.00. The minimum IELTS score requirement refers to which Overall Band Score you received, which is your combined average score. Read more about IELTS.
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Academic Requirements
For research study within our School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science, we normally require a good honours or Masters degree, or equivalent, in a relevant discipline. A well-developed research proposal is also essential.
However, if you do not have a Masters degree, we also offer a four-year integrated PhD, where your first year is spent doing a Masters before embarking on your research. This preparatory year ensures you develop your knowledge before embarking on your independent research.
If English is not your first language, then we will require you to have IELTS 6.5 (5.5 minimum component score) or equivalent.
Tuition Fee Per Year
- GBP 3100 EU/EEA
Home/EU fee Year 1 and 2: £3,100
Home/EU fee Year 3+: £2,100
Funding
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