Healthcare Sciences Cardiff University

Overview

Applications are invited from those interested in undertaking research that fits with the School’s available research themes.

Each of the three themes has a range of research areas and you should aim to tailor your research proposal to one of these areas:

• Optimising Well-being and the Management of Long-term Conditions

• Optimising Service Delivery and Organisation

• Optimising Health through Activity, lifestyles and Technology

Cardiff University programme's Healthcare Sciences aim is to undertake independent and original research in the healthcare sciences that will help inform, improve and influence healthcare across the globe.

Distinctive features

• Dedicated office space provided for postgraduate research students.

• Each doctoral student is encouraged to pursue a programme of courses, workshops and conferences. The School itself provides a programme of monthly research methods master classes, an annual postgraduate research symposium and two sessions per year to update students on ethics review procedures.

• Students are also encouraged to take an active role in our themes to include delivering presentations on behalf of the theme at the school seminar series and contributing to individual theme meetings.