Welcome ESRC Health and Wellbeing Pathway
The Pathway is delivered as part of the White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (DTC). The DTC is a means to support the sharing of methodological expertise and the development of novel approaches to social scientific research questions as they relate to the study of health and wellbeing. We aim to offer our research students a wide range of training opportunities and experiences. The goal is to support student’s timely completion of an original piece of doctoral research.
All our doctoral students have access to training and development opportunities regardless of their funding source.
The White Rose Social Sciences DTC
The White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre was launched in 2011 and is one of 21 DTCs funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK. The White Rose University Consortium has been designing, facilitating and enhancing mutually beneficial collaborative research activities across the universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York, since 1997 and the DTC is the latest development to build on these collaborative arrangements.
Overall, the DTC supports over 20 Research Pathways in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive range of methods and other relevant training provision. The Health and Wellbeing Pathway is offered from ScHARR and offers a comprehensive training provision in health related research methods.
Research Training Pathway Components
Year 1 research training in Health and Wellbeing will be centred on research methods, including training in systematic reviewing and critical appraisal. Training provision in ScHARR is flexible and is designed to reflect the needs of individual students. At the same time, all social scientists, regardless of discipline, need a broad-based training in a range of methods and underpinning theory relevant to the study of health and wellbeing. Hence, all students undertake core training. Currently, this training is provided through four Departmental modules:
| DTP Health and Wellbeing core modules | Date |
|---|---|
| HAR6016- Sociology of Health and Illness | Spring |
| HAR6501- Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal Techniques | Spring |
| FCM6100- Research ethics and integrity training | Autumn |
| HAR6030- Introduction to Research Methods | Autumn |
DTP Health and Wellbeing advanced optional modules
In Years 2-4 students will take advanced research training modules that may include core social science modules from other disciplines, e.g., health economics, in addition to specific advanced training related to Health and Wellbeing. Further training will be tailored to the needs of individual students, research needs and career development goals.
All students will be expected to attend transferable skills training provided by the White Rose DTC as appropriate to their individual needs, and to participate in transferable skills (and advanced) training offered nationally.
| Additional Suggested Programme modules (may be supplemented from other Departmental options subject to student needs and availability) | Date |
|---|---|
| HAR680- Contemporary Health Psychology and Behaviour Change | Spring |
| HAR6531- Qualitative Research Design and Analysis | Spring |
| HAR6035- Introduction to Statistics and Critical Appraisal | Autumn |
| HAR619- Epidemiology | Autumn |
| HAR668- Introduction to Health Economics | Autumn |
| HAR670- Medical Statistics & Evidence Synthesis | Spring |
Students may choose from optional modules open to all PGR students through the Doctoral Development Plan (DDP) according to their individual requirements and in discussion with the supervisory team.
Details of current studentships
We currently have no studentships on offer.
For further details, please contact Dr Jennifer Burr.