Professional Doctorate in Health and Wellbeing

Entry requirements

Applicants for a Professional Doctorate course will:

• be judged on the basis of their professional experience or professional practice. Other relevant experience, training, publications, contracts, consultancies, residencies, exhibitions, performances, written reports or other evidence of accomplishment shall be taken into consideration as appropriate to the nature and scope of the Professional Doctorate
• have relevant professional experience at a level and for a minimum period agreed by the University at the time of course approval.

An applicant for a research degree shall normally hold either:

• a first or upper second class honours degree or
• a master’s degree or
• evidence of prior practice or learning that is accepted by the Dean of Research.

Applicants may apply for entry with advanced standing through the University’s Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) procedures, if they hold appropriate experience or accredited learning, or qualifications.

Applicants must demonstrate that the learning was appropriate to the objectives of their chosen Professional Doctorate course and met the learning outcomes of the Professional Doctorate course.

Applicants shall not be awarded credit through RPLS for any Level 8 component of the course. The programme can commence at Stage 2 for those with a Masters qualification in a health related subject.

Applicants may apply for entry with advanced standing through the University’s Recognition of Prior Learning ( RPL) procedures if they hold appropriate experience or accredited learning, or qualifications.

Candidates without an MA would need to complete the Level 7 component and commence the programme at Stage 1.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course is designed to develop your capacity to work within a professional context, introducing competent research into the nature of professional practice.

Its robust approach to education, a curriculum employing traditional research-based purposes in line with the PhD model while focusing on experienced professional practitioners, imbues values of innovation, managing change and pursuing ideas to fruition into the framework of an expert practitioner.

The advanced learning imparted through experiential and IT-based activities, balancing integration in existing work with thinking towards major organisational change, enhances the expertise of graduates to the level of attaining leading roles in clinical practice, management, entrepreneurship and teaching.

Information for international students

Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English at least to the level of an IELTS score (or equivalent) of 7.0, with no individual element less than 6.0. The only exemption to this is for students who are not required to do so as per UKVI regulations.

However, if the candidate holds a Master's degree from a U.K. University, this requirement may be waived.

Fees and funding