School of Health and Social Care Research

Improving Global Health and Social Care

The UK’s health and social care systems continue to provide high quality care, however it is crucial that we explore the new technologies and ways of working open to us to ensure the standards of care we have come to expect are maintained.

The work we do in support of this ethos is underpinned by a culture of connectedness from the students we educate, to the research we carry out and through to our impact on the wider world. Integral throughout all of this is the involvement of patients and care providers in our work, ensuring it remains relevant to the challenges facing our society.

Drawing on the cutting edge research our ethos of multi-disciplinary, collaborative research is key to bringing in research leaders from across the health care, social care, academic, private and voluntary sectors.  Such a robust approach enables us to take forward high quality research which ultimately benefits patients, users, managers and policy makers.

Join Our Research Community

The research work we do is in support of an ethos underpinned by a culture of connectedness from the research we carry out through to the opportunities we build for early career researchers. Our research has worldwide impact and is an ideal platform from which to launch a research career. Integral throughout all of this is the involvement of patients and care providers in our work, ensuring it remains relevant to the challenges facing our society.

Our research degree programmes will help you to; pursue a career in academia, improve your employment prospects, develop your skills in a chosen professional career or simply want to follow a programme of research based on your own personal interests.

Exploring Global Problems

Exploring Global Problems is our podcast series, where academics from across the University talk about how their ground-breaking research help tackle a variety of global challenges.

The first series topics include Health Innovation, Climate Change, Green Energy and Human-centred digital technologies. Our contribution to this came from Professor Yamni Nigam whose research has explored the use of Maggots  to combat the antimicrobial resistance crisis, our second episode came from Professor Tom Potokar who spoke about his work on burn injuries and the work to improve care and prevention of burns.

Visit our podcast page to listen and subscribe to the series. We hope you enjoy!