Postgraduate opportunities
PhD studentships
The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of the oldest in the UK, and the first to award degrees in pharmacy. It currently boasts nearly 100 post-graduate students in total in the School, with 9 based in the pharmacy practice group. Eight PhD students joined the department in September 2006.
DUPPG
The Drug Usage and Pharmacy Practice Group (DUPPG) aims to provide specialised and generic training in research, opening up a number of different careers paths for those who successfully complete their post graduate degree. From within the group and the University more widely, you are provided with high quality research facilities, scope for undertaking multidisciplinary and multi-method research, extensive networks and interactions with a range of health professionals and research sites, leading edge research expertise, and good quality mentoring and career development support. Over 25 PhD students have successfully undertaken their studies in the pharmacy practice group and 10 former members have secured academic or senior research appointments in Universities in the UK and abroad.
Funding and further information
Each studentship will cover tuition fees and a maintenance grant will be provided at research council rates (expected to be approximately £12,300 per year, tax exempt). Funding is for three years. Candidates must have a 1st or 2.1 honours degree and meet the requirements for home or EU student status. Practitioners, graduates in pharmacy, and graduates from other clinical subjects or the economic or social sciences are welcome to apply.
Funding is available for postgraduate study within CPWS to undertake a PhD from a selection of topics linked to our pharmacy workforce programme. As at Spring 2007, two students, a pharmacist and a sociologist, have successfully completed studies on occupational mobility: one on Primary Care Pharmacists and another on the pharmacists who migrate abroad. Two students started work in CPWS in September 2006, one studying employment issues for female pharmacists from ethnic minority groups and another studying the notion of the poorly performing pharmacist.
If you are interested in workforce research and pursuing post graduate training to PhD level please get in touch with the Director of the CPWS: Professor Karen Hassell. We can also put you in touch with one of the PhD students already here, if your enquiry is more informal. Please do not hesitate to contact us
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