Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care Professional Doctorate

**Overview**<br/><br/>Our Professional Doctorate is designed to enable advanced practitioners to lead and respond innovatively to the rapidly changing health and social care environment.<br/><br/>We develop leaders who can improve health and wellbeing through addressing local, regional and national concerns, and who have the ability to build evidence bases that inform policy and practice development.<br/><br/>You’ll develop skills in critical analysis, enquiry and research through core units of study with relevance to health and care professionals in practice, across the state, third sector and business sectors.<br/><br/>This will help you to form your own conclusions about the implications for your professional practice, and intervene in health and social care debates as appropriate.<br/><br/>We deliver this practice-based course in two phases. Phase one, in the first two years of study (part time) one year (full-time), involves the study of four core units and one option unit. We teach these units via blended learning, a mix of face-to-face teaching, and online, supervised and guided study.<br/><br/>In phase two, (years three-five part-time; years two and three full-time), you’ll undertake independent study under supervision, submitting your thesis of approximately 40,000 – 60,000 words. <br/><br/>**Features and benefits**<br/><br/><br/>- You’ll gain academic recognition related to your professional experience and practice.<br/><br/><br/>- You’ll develop the skills to develop and improve your professional working environment.<br/><br/><br/>- The course is a flexible, blended learning course, so you can fit studying around other commitments.<br/>