Research

Research and furthering understanding

Furthering understanding of all areas of health and society is a key objective of the Institute and we conduct research of international importance that helps to shape our lives – covering everything from children’s experience of hospitalisation through to the work of our Association for Dementia Studies. This research underpins our teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as providing opportunities for staff to undertake consultancy.

Research impact

The Institute’s transformational research projects seek to address some of the major issues both within the profession and beyond it. By pulling together academics working across disciplines to tackle important, social, scientific and environmental challenges, these projects are making an impact on people's lives and helping to expand our base of world-leading research.

Research-led teaching

Our research-excellence underpins the content and delivery of all our teaching programmes – undergraduate and postgraduate. We are committed to enabling all of our students to profit from a culture of learning aligned with our research and knowledge-transfer ethos, which is based upon critical enquiry, debate and self-motivation.

The University is a leading innovator in the fields of health and social care. Unique appointments such as the UK’s first professors of perinatal education and tissue viability demonstrate our commitment to research excellence. Louise Jones Head of Institute

Areas of supervision

We can offer students supervision in psychology, nursing and midwifery, health care, social welfare and pollen and aerobiology.

Talks and workshops

You can feed your appetite for knowledge at the University’s research seminars, which run throughout the year on topical subjects, often closely related to individual research projects. We invite distinguished speakers from the University and beyond to deliver these free lectures.