Health Services Research University of Liverpool

Overview

The Health Services Research programme is offered by University of Liverpool .

is dedicated to globally important and locally impactful population health scholarship, through programmes or research and civic partnerships. Our research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of health services, the social origins of health and social inequalities in healthcare, and mental health and well-being, including the evaluation of a wide range of psychosocial interventions and therapies.

This multi-disciplinary research environment with strong NHS and NIHR partnerships provides a positive environment for postgraduate research students. We have expertise and ongoing research projects using both quantitative and qualitative methods, systematic reviews, clinical trials and routinely collected data in a variety of community, primary and secondary care contexts. Our work is theoretically robust, and problem and policy focused, with a socially relevant research agenda and research led postgraduate teaching.

Students studying for a postgraduate research degree in Health Services Research are based within the Department of Primary Care and Mental Health (PCMH) or the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems (PHPS).

Department of Primary Care and Mental Health

PCMH’s goal is to enhance mental health and wellbeing support, and primary healthcare provision. PCMH engages in scholarly activity to develop theories, models and interventions for primary healthcare and to promote mental health and wellbeing. Our research and teaching activities aim to enhance excellence in primary, community, mental health and social care at a local and global level. Our underlying principles include inclusion and diversity, multi-disciplinarity and co-production, and we adhere to robust governance and standards of professional and research ethics.

Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems

PHPS is one of the largest public health departments in the UK and has a world-leading status for its excellence in research and education, offering the ideal environment to become a recognised specialist in the field of public health. Our research prioritises tackling existing and emerging population health issues, especially those that affect our community and lead to health inequalities. We are at the forefront of research into public health, policy and systems, and in particular addressing health inequalities through action on the social determinants of health, both locally and globally. Underpinning our research, teaching and service work is the social model of health and how that can be applied to address health inequalities and inequalities within health and social care systems.

Key facts:

Research topicsOur Health Services Research PhD/MPhil/MD covers a broad range of potential topics for investigation. We welcome research proposals that match the research areas of our researchers in topics including:

• Policy Research on Social Determinants of Health and Child Health

• Energy, Air Pollution and Health

• Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Food Policy

• Public Health Simulation Modelling

• Routine or Administrative Data for Analysis of Health Inequalities

• Social Science Approaches in and of Public/Population Health

• Global mental health

• Chronic conditions and polymorbidity

• Children and families

• Older adults

• Primary care and community mental health

• Big data – CIPHA and System-P

• Suicide and self-harm

• Dementia and ageing

• Clinical psychology (including forensics, pain, dementia, and physical health)

• Visual impairment in acquired brain injury.