Within the Nursing Research Group, our health and social care research is helping to transform people's lives for the better. Our expertise includes: technology in healthcare, specific topics relevant to children, young people and families; the outcomes of health and social care education, healthcare delivery, and resilience in modern living. Find out about our current collaborations and projects.
The Public Health Institute investigates interventions with the aim of reducing tobacco use. We look at the relationship between smoking behaviours and demographics, income, parental smoking, leisure activities and alcohol consumption.
Nursing and Advanced Practice
Voluntary action/third sector responses research within the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion.
Children and Youth research strand within the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion.
Guidance on helping asylum seekers and refugees in primary care.
Cellular and Molecular Physiology of Lifelong Health has expertise in human exercise physiology, experimental models of muscle adaptation and state-of-the-art mass spectrometry for proteomic and metabolomic studies.
From the effects of global pandemics to issues such as health inequalities and the impact of drugs and alcohol on communities and individuals, the study of public health is one that affects all of us.
Find out more about current PhD positions available to apply for within the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the pace at which educational institutions moved towards a blended approach of online and in-person learning (Jisc, 2020). While embracing this change, the challenges it brings for learner experience, engagement and learning must be carefully considered.