Public health and healthcare, alongside the health sciences, form a core strength of the University of Brighton. Our professional and academic networks foster multidisciplinary and collaborative research and knowledge exchange that has a direct impact on the wider public. Doctoral students are a major part of that world.You will be joining a vital hub of healthcare research and knowledge exchange. University-led innovations are building co-designed community-clinical services and providing cutting-edge training and education. We are working with schools to promote health and wellness and we collaborate with local communities to address pressing health challenges such as inequalities, workforce shortages and emerging health issues.Our research in public health and healthcare at the University of Brighton embraces wide-ranging, applied perspectives: from age-related conditions and long-term conditions, through to social, psychological, political and economic determinants of health, with health inequalities a key focus for PhD public health students and supervisors.We draw on clinical, professional and sociological perspectives, working across practice and theory in a range of health, public health, community-based and social care-related settings, and across statutory, NHS andor third sector services.We offer PhD public health and healthcare study in both full and part-time modes and welcome students with significant professional experience, who are able to use and share the career skills they have developed, as well as those who have recently completed first degrees and wish to take advantage of their academic momentum.