Health

We welcome proposals for postgraduate research in all of these areas
PUPSMD clinical neuroscience E-Health / cognitive assessment. iphone. smartphone
  • eHealth 
  • Rehabilitation 
  • Applied health genetics 
  • Clinical skills innovation 
  • Dietetics and health 
  • Health policy, implementation and organisation 
  • Health services 
  • Clinical neurosciences
  • Cancer
  • Clinical trials
  • Drug and drug use 
  • Health applications of IT 
  • Health communication and risk 
  • Nursing 
  • Occupational therapy and occupational science 
  • Diabetes
  • Infection, immunity and inflammation
  • Diagnostics
  • Dental health
  • Women's health

Postgraduate research opportunities

Although you can do research in any of the areas above, you may wish to look at these programmes:

Our research community

nurse shows other trainees how to use the IV drip South West Clinical Schools
 Linking research with practice to improve patient outcomes across the region

Shot of happy senior women using virtual reality headsets together at a retirement home School of Nursing and Midwifery Research
 Nationally and internationally significant research

Fruit at a farmers market Dietetics, human nutrition and health
 Working to further understand the relationship between nutrition and health

Motor Control Lab Immersive Treadmill Rehabilitation research
 A forum for scientists, health care professionals and service users to exchange ideas and develop new research ventures

Older women sharing a coffee Participation in everyday life research group
 We focus on studies about people, their everyday occupations and the environment

Group of business people planning around a table Development and evaluation of complex interventions
 Promoting and supporting high quality research, innovation and impact associated with the design and evaluation of complex interventions

Eye and vision, eye test. Eye and vision research group
 Vision is rated as the most important of the five senses; it is responsible for more than 80% of input to the brain

Two African children standing together smiling Global health collaborative
 A forum for overseas health education, research and sustainability

Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research

From basic research discovering the causes of disease, through to evaluating novel ways of delivering care to the most vulnerable people in society, our thriving community conducts adventurous world-leading research.
Transformation in life course, ageing, methodologies, e-health, technology and interventions in health, social care, lifestyle and wellbeing.
 
People walking and talking in a modern setting.
“One aspect of my research was speaking with parents who were searching for a diagnosis for their child. I was trying to understand more about the hoops they had to jump through as they did not have a name for their child’s condition. Some of the findings from this work were used in an application to the National Lottery to set up a support group for parents in this situation (SWAN UK). It was lovely to have something tangible and positive come out of academic research.”
Celine Lewis

Postgraduate Research Coordinators

If you are thinking about becoming a postgraduate researcher at the University of Plymouth, you are welcome to contact the Postgraduate Research Coordinators in your field of interest.
They will discuss potential supervisors with you and answer any questions you might have about embarking on a research degree in their research area.
 
Psychology PhD student and supervisor

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Apply for a postgraduate research programme

Find out how to apply to study on a postgraduate research programme at the University of Plymouth as a home student, an international student, or a studentship candidate.
 
Qian Chen