Nursing

The University of Brighton offers interdisciplinary study across a range of allied health and healthcare practice areas. It offers this PhD degree in Nursing.

Research on this  Nursing Nursing programme offered at University of Brighton University of Brighton embraces a diverse range of qualitative, quantitative and participatory methods and includes use of the arts, participatory and new methodologies with projects often drawing on personal professional or experiential perspectives. You will be contributing throughout your studies to a research portfolio that has major impact on understanding the experiences of health, illness, the meaning of care and people’s involvement in this and the provision and the systems that support it.

Key facts

As a Nursing PhD or Midwifery PhD student at the University of Brighton, you will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising 2-3 members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another school, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry

• opportunities to present and discuss your own work with other researchers in seminars organised by research centres, groups and the university schools.

• desk space and access to a desktop PC

• access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries. 

Research:

• Expert supervision for a Nursing PhD is offered, for example, in the nature and meaning of care across a number of contexts spanning acute, primary and community as well as secondary care and across a diverse range of health and long term or illness conditions.

• This includes contributions to new interventions, digital and technological applications, lifeworld-led care perspectives and new understandings of peoples’ experiences.