Palliative Care-PhD

Lancaster University

This PhD has been carefully designed by Lancaster University’s world-leading experts in palliative care to offer you a deep understanding of different aspects of palliative care to those working in the hospice sector, palliative and end-of-life care and beyond.Delivered part-time online, it can be combined with your existing professional and personal commitments.It is ideal for people in or looking to enter clinical work, education, research, management, policy and advocacy. Clinical experience is not a requirement for this PhD. Palliative care is rapidly evolving, sensitive and increasingly high-profile.It is imperative that people working in the field can make decisions about care, service organisation and policy that are rooted in the best possible research-based evidence. Whether you are looking to enter or progress in the hospice, palliative care, or end-of-life care sectors or have an ambition to become a researcher, your PhD will equip you with the highly transferrable skills and knowledge to guide policy and practice in palliative care or more broadly. This part-time, online PhD in palliative care runs for between four and seven years. It has been created with flexibility at its core. It allows you to combine your studies with your existing commitments, supporting a healthy work-life balance.The first two years comprise taught modules delivered and assessed remotely. You will be allocated an academic tutor who will support you in developing your research ideas.