PhD Nursing

Overview

You can tailor your degree’s content to your own interests. It will involve primary research to enable you to make a unique and original contribution to the body of evidence that underpins nursing practice.

You may work in any one of the many different nursing fields including adult, children’s, mental health, older persons or acute and critical care nursing.

This will enable you to develop an expert knowledge base to conduct in-depth independent research. Your research will be embedded in your area of practice. It will work towards improving the outcomes of the patients, service users, clinicians or students you work with.

You will work closely with your supervisor and also benefit from our academic's in the School of Health Sciences. Our expertise span a broad range of healthcare disciplines, methodological fields of expertise and professional areas.

You’ll be learning in a stimulating environment where researchers and students from diverse backgrounds research, learn and work together.