Clinical Health Care
You will join a supportive and collaborative research community, giving you the chance to develop your research skills together with knowledge of your chosen subject.
We offer the following research degrees:
- MPhil
- PhD
Support and Supervision
You can expect:
- To be allocated a supervisory team comprising at least two and not normally more than three supervisors. One supervisor is designated the Director of Studies (or ‘main supervisor’).
- To meet with your supervisors on a regular basis and have many additional opportunities to share your progress with other researchers and research students.
- Opportunities to participate in the faculty’s annual research conference and to attend research seminars, including research training seminars across Oxford Brookes University.
Research Areas
The main focus of research activity is supportive cancer care, and we are committed to improving the supportive care services delivered to cancer patients and their families through high- quality research and the transfer of our findings into practice.
The cancer care group was established in 2007. Group meetings are held regularly and bring together researchers, students, lecturers and practitioners who have an interest in cancer care research, and to foster the development of research.
Current research topics include:
- The unmet health and supportive care needs of the partners or close relatives of long term adult survivors of cancer
- Late effects of pelvic radiotherapy: assessing the needs of long term cancer survivors
- A national survey of oncologists regarding treatment related infertility and fertility preservation in cancer patients
- Exploring the current practices and views of GPs and oncologists on cancer follow-up initiatives
- Participation of adolescents and young adults with cancer in clinical trials
- Transitions in cancer care: understanding the experiences and needs of younger cancer patients following completion of active treatment
- Cancer recurrence: the information and support needs of patients and family members.
Other areas of staff research include:
- Reflective practice in nursing
- Mobile technologies and health care
- Threshold concepts and evidence- based practice
- Bioethics of personalised medicine in relation to genomics
- The use of exercise to manage symptoms in patients with heart failure.
