Healthcare
The School’s expertise in Healthcare focuses on innovation in the design, delivery, organization, and evaluation of healthcare interventions. We have a particular emphasis on disabling and distressing, long term or life-limiting conditions, such as chronic pain, stroke, dementia, rheumatic disease, and severe mental health problems.
Current research activity involves collaborations with NHS colleagues in Bath at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases - RNHRD the Royal United Hospital, the Avon Wiltshire Mental Health Care Trust, the Pan Bath & Swindon Primary Care Research Consortium, the Research Hub and RehabNET.
Faculties in the school have significant research expertise and experience in a range of topics including:
- Addictions and addictive behaviour
- Alcohol, drugs and the family
- Assistive technology and rehabilitation
- Autoimmunity and Genetics
- Child and adolescent cognitive behavioural therapy
- Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
- Dementia care
- Evidence based pain management
- Leadership and change
- Mental health service development and evaluation
- Spondylarthropathy disease and related disability
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Work, health and wellbeing
The School’s teaching programmes in Healthcare focus on:
- Healthcare and information management – Masters programmes in Healthcare Informatics and Healthcare Information Governance
- Developing expert practitioners and researchers in practice – the innovative, online Professional Doctorate in Health which provides health and social care professionals with the tools to gain a doctoral qualification whilst working and researching actively in the healthcare system and the new Masters in Research in Health Practice