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Health Services Management PhD/MPhil – (Ph.D.)
University of Birmingham
School of Public Policy| Application Deadline: | None, but early application advised | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,232 - ≈ € 12,860 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Birmingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Birmingham
We offer two types of research degree: MPhil and PhD. Both may be taken either by full- or part-time study. Prospective applicants for research degrees in any aspect of health service management and health care policy are invited to apply, outlining their special interests. As part of their application, candidates will need to submit an outline proposal of their research topic.
Research areas
HSMC offers the opportunity to study for research degrees in a wide variety of topics relating to health services policy and management, including:
* Leadership
* Long-term conditions
* Health and social care partnerships
* Commissioning health and social care services
* Providers
Key facts
Type of Course: Doctoral research
Duration: PhD – 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time; MPhil – 2 years full-time, 4 years part-time
Start date: September 2011
Contents
Learning and teaching
HSMC staff bring their wide knowledge of UK and international health systems (gained through research and consultancy activities, as well as their own professional experience) to their teaching and tutorial support for students. This emphasis on combining theory and practice is maintained throughout all of our programmes.
Learning and teaching facilities include:
* An on-site administrative team
* Dedicated library and resource facilities
* Well-equipped classrooms
* Syndicate rooms, IT resource rooms, Common rooms
Related links
Health Services Management Centre website:
Research interests of staff
* Partnership working; user involvement; health and social care outcomes; organisational culture; third sector; primary care organisations; space and place. Contact: Helen Dickinson, Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7069
Email: h.e.dickinson@bham.ac.uk
* Self management of long term conditions; participative governance and localism in the NHS; user involvement in service evaluation and quality improvement; evaluating the impact of involvement. Contact: Jo Ellins, Research Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7073
Email: j.l.ellins@bham.ac.uk
* Quality improvement and quality assurance; performance management; governance and governmentality. Contact: Tim Freeman, Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3213
Email: t.freeman@bham.ac.uk
* Inter-agency health and social care; direct payments and individual budgets; community care. Contact: Jon Glasby, Professor of Health and Social Care & Co-Director of HSMC
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7068
Email: j.glasby@bham.ac.uk
* Organisation and management development; comparative health policy and management; health care reform in the UK and internationally; priority setting; primary care and integrated care. Contact: Chris Ham, Professor of Health Policy and Management
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3212
Email: c.j.ham@bham.ac.uk
* Quality and service improvement in health care, particularly from the user perspective; patient involvement in treatment decisions; the role of lay people on governing boards and decision making committees; the evaluation of public and patient involvement. Contact: Shirley McIver, Senior Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7050
Email: s.a.mciver@bham.ac.uk
* Information, planning and resource allocation in the NHS; performance measurement; priority setting and rationing; internal markets; healthcare policy; health economics. Contact: Penelope Mullen, Senior Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6212
Email: p.m.mullen@bham.ac.uk
* Health policy, especially New Labour; choice and consumerism; decentralisation; partnerships; history of health care before the NHS. Social policy, especially historical and geographical dimensions, citizenship, equity, theories of welfare state development. Contact: Martin Powell, Professor of Health and Social Policy
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4462
Email: m.powell@bham.ac.uk
* Economic evaluation of health technologies, systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness studies and methodological issues around approaches to valuing health states for use in economic evaluation; primary care. Contact: Suzanne Robinson, Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3011
Email: s.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk
* Priority setting in health care; theories of policy decision making; health care in an international context; partnerships. Contact: Lestyn Williams, Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7063
Email: i.p.williams@bham.ac.uk
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Direct entry to a PhD programme requires a Masters degree or a relevant good Honours degree. The entry requirements for an MPhil are a good Honours degree or equivalent. Post-qualification experience will also be taken into account when considering applicants. Possibilities exist for transfer to a PhD programme from an MPhil programme.
International students We accept a range of qualifications from different countries
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 93 |
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