The four to six-year, part-time programme includes seminars on research methods and policy/organisational issues to support the practice focused assignments and final thesis. It is designed to facilitate professional practitioners to solve problems and innovate in practice by drawing on the best possible evidence.
There are ten awards available. Three of the awards are offered at the Centre for Health Research:
- Doctor of Health Promotion (DHP)
- Doctor of Midwifery (DMid)
- Doctor of Nursing (DNursing)
The others are offered by the Clinical Research Centre in Eastbourne. See below for further information:
- Doctor of Occupational Therapy (DOccT)
- Doctor of Physiotherapy (DPT)
- Doctor of Podiatry (DPod)
- Doctor of Counselling and Psychotherapy (DCP)
- Doctor of Pharmacy (DPharm)
- Doctor of Biomedical Sciences (DBMS)
- Doctor of Health Care (DHC)
See FAQs about the professional doctorate programme
Programme leader for professional doctorate in health and social care:
Dr Nikki Petty
01273 643775
N.J.Petty@brighton.ac.uk
Professional doctorate in nursing:
Professor Julie Scholes
01273 644078
J.Scholes@brighton.ac.uk
Professional doctorate in midwifery:
Professor Valerie Hall
01273 644014
V.Hall@brighton.ac.uk
Professional doctorate in health promotion:
Dr Nigel Sherriff
01273 644539
N.S.Sherriff@brighton.ac.uk
