Nursing and Health Sciences

The School of Health Sciences (SHS) strives to transform lives through applied health research, within a vibrant research community within our school and the wider university. This PhD in Nursing and Health Sciences is offered at the University of Dundee.

This Nursing and Health Sciences Nursing and Health Sciences programme is offered at the  University of Dundee University of Dundee . We are committed to working with our students and applicants to ensure their experience is positive, enjoyable, and productive. We have had consistently excellent student feedback, via the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES), and we will continue to provide a first-class student experience within the School.

Key Facts

Our primary research themes align with the University themes of Population Health and Wealth and Equity and Inclusion and primarily the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good Health and Well-being. They are:

• Understanding health: exploring people’s experience of health and the challenges of providing equitable healthcare
• Innovation in health: developing and testing interventions that contribute to positive health outcomes for.
• Improving health service delivery: design for practice change, quality and safety, equity, service improvement and evidence implementation.

Research areas include:

• Healthy active ageing research
• Improvement and implementation
• Living well with long term conditions
• Mother, infant and child
• Substance use