School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work

Professional Doctorate

The Programme will enable you to:

Provide a specialism in your field
Develop leadership capability, management skills and self-awareness
Promote an evaluative culture in the work place enabling you to build evidence-based changes and complement professional and organisational goals
Work with other students in a learning environment supported by significant elements of directed study
Enable you to influence policy and practice agendas relevant to your own discipline and wider inter-professional initiatives
Strengthen and enhance the research capacity of health and social care professionals
Be taught by experts in research and methodology; receive knowledgeable support from supervisors relevant to your own research

The Programme will enable you to:

Make a significant contribution to professional practice
Broaden and deepen understanding of your research topic to provide you with appropriate transferable skills in the real world
Develop research, including alternative epistemological positions to provide a context for theory construction in a real-world context
Study inter-professionally with peers in a collaborative environment, strengthening networking opportunities across health and social care disciplines
Benefit from an interaction with peers through such activities as seminars, virtual learning and the sharing of common facilities
The programme is real-world oriented and provides a structure in accord with full-time working during both the teaching and research phase
Study at a distance; the course is run on a part-time basis and arrangements for supervisory meetings are negotiable
Stimulate the development of professionally oriented research, policy changes and evidence-based practice