Social and Public Health (Social Sciences) PhD

University of Glasgow

OVERVIEW

Members of the Social Scientists in Health research group work across a range of Social and Public Health topics and welcome PhD applications in the following areas:

1. Understanding concepts and drivers of health: work to locate the social and cultural forces that underpin and produce health practices and outcomes.
2. Improving health and wellbeing: work which designs and evaluates culturally situated interventions to improve health and wellbeing, with specific concern for redressing health inequalities.
3. Public policy and health: work which engages critically with public policy as a key determinant of health and considers alternative policies which tackle health inequalities.

We welcome applicants from low- and middle-income countries and we have significant experience of supervising students whose PhD research takes them overseas.

Final assessment involves the submission of a thesis of between 70,000 and 100,000 words and an oral examination (viva voce).