Health and Wellbeing and Resilience

Our Health and Wellbeing and Resilience PhD students at theUniversity of Brighton work across practice and theory in a range of health, public health, community-based and social care-related settings, and across statutory, NHS and/or third sector services.

Your research as a Health and Wellbeing and Resilience PhD student at the University of Brighton will combine a range of theoretical and critical perspectives as well as bringing the skills and satisfactions that come with managing a major project and contributing to knowledge that will make a difference to individuals, families, communities and society.

Key facts

As a PhD student in health, wellbeing and/or resilience at Brighton, you will

• benefit from a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three 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.

• be provided with desk space and access to a desktop PC.

• benefit from 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.

• be aligned with school and university-wide research centres/ groups as part of a supportive and developmental research community.

Expert supervision is offered, for example, across issues of:

• social justice andresilience

• public health, including inequalities in health and illness related to gender, age, sexuality including LGBTQ

• disability, as well as living well with long term conditions

• digital health

• hospital, community and population based interventions

• sexual health

• mental health

• gendered perspectives

• diabetes

• rehabilitation

• growing older

• resilience with children and young people

• adults and practitioner resilience