Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2017 | Page 26

Postgraduate Prospectus 2017

Research Institute
for Primary
Care and Health
Sciences
The Research Institute for Primary Care
and Health Sciences’ mission is to deliver
high-quality multidisciplinary research designed
to improve the content, delivery and configuration
of primary care for the benefit of patients
with musculoskeletal, mental health, and
other long term conditions.
We have a thriving MPhil and PhD programme, and a large group
of postgraduate research students, working in the supportive
research environment of an internationally renowned research
group. Our PhD students have access to rich research resources,
including datasets from high quality cohorts and randomised
clinical trials (with linkage to medical records), and linked
patient-level data from qualitative research. We offer high quality
supervision teams who are international experts in the areas
of our PhD programmes, an active and supportive peer group
of postgraduate students, together with ongoing programmes
of external and internal seminars, training programmes,
and dedicated workshops in the research methods relevant
to our PhD programmes (systematic reviewing, epidemiology,
trials, and prognosis research).

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of Keele’s research in Primary Care
has been judged world leading
or internationally excellent by
the Public Health, Health Services
Research, and Primary Care
assessment panel of the
2014 Universities
UK’s Research Excellence
Framework (REF)