Overview

The Department of Women’s and Children’s Health is internationally renowned for research covering obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology, and medical and surgical paediatrics.

Key Features

The main research facilities are integrated with two of the largest specialist Women’s and Children’s hospitals in Europe, the Centre for Women’s Health research within the Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Institute in the Park within the Alder Hey Hospital.
The Child Health programme from University of Liverpool is internationally renowned for its research and has specialist groups covering obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology and medical and surgical paediatrics.

Facilities

The Child Health Research Team is based at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, a new £280M facility opened in 2015 with a catchment area of 7.5 million and more than 275,000 episodes of care per annum including 65,000 children seen in the A&E department.
A new, state-of-the-art bespoke ‘Alder Hey Institute in the Park’ brings together the strengths of the University and NHS in Research, Innovation and Education (Phase I, £12.5M opened 2015, with the £13M Phase II extension opening in 2018) with outstanding laboratory facilities.
The recently renewed £2M funding to support the NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility (CRF) for Experimental Medicine serves as a hub for conducting experimental medicine/ early phase/ late phase clinical trials/ studies in neonates and children to ensure that Liverpool is a key UK and European player for drug development in paediatrics.

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Programme Structure

Research Themes:

Research synthesis and clinical trials

Biology of the developing lung

Paediatric Rheumatology

Developing better medicines for children

Paediatric infections

Paediatric renal inflammation and injury

Improving child health globally

Stem cell therapy for Hirschsprung’s disease

Cell biology of childhood malignancies.

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months
Part-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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General requirements

Applicants for postgraduate research study at Liverpool are normally expected to hold a UK first degree with a First Class or Upper Second Class degree classification, or a Second Class degree plus a Master’s degree.
Equivalent international qualifications are also accepted, and their equivalence will be evaluated on the basis of the information provided by the National Academic Recognition and Information Centre (NARIC) as well as internal guidance based on our experience of a qualification’s suitability as a preparation for our programmes.
School or college transcripts/certificates
University transcripts
Degree certificates
English language certificates (International applicants only)
A personal statement
Two signed references on letterheaded paper (these should be academic references if you have been in full-time education in the last three years)
A research proposal (may be tested for plagiarism, collusion and other irregularities)

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

31250 GBP / year

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5006 GBP / year

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Part-time:

National: £2,503

EU/International: £15,650

Living costs

Liverpool

United Kingdom

556 - 1035 GBP / month

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Funding

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