Postgraduate research opportunities The Future Hospital & Beyond Its Walls
ApplyKey facts
- Opens: Wednesday 16 October 2024
- Deadline: Friday 15 November 2024
- Number of places: 10
- Duration: Up to 2 years
- Funding: Home fee, Travel costs
Overview
The 'Future Hospital' is a network that is agile, flexible and responsive, connected by a digital infrastructure. Long-term solutions in prevention of disease, remote monitoring, early diagnosis, and detection will be key components of Future Hospitals. The Future Hospital will have better processes enhancing patient experiences and outcomes. Up to 10 part-time MPhil studentships, each for up to two years' duration, will be awarded to professionals working in the Health, Care or Third Sector.Eligibility
We invite students to undertake projects part-time, over a period of two years.
Projects:
- must be supervised by academics at the University of Strathclyde. We encourage joint supervision across two academic departments to nurture integrated solutions for healthcare challenges
- must be supported by the NHS, Care or Third Sector and clearly demonstrate potential to make a significant positive impact on health and care delivery under the auspices of the ‘Future Hospital’ by innovating within the sectors of pharmacy, surgery, mental health or social care in their host organisation
- engagement of the NHS, Care or Third Sector through the full studentship must be evidenced through a letter of support from the organisation and confirmation granting day release for the candidate to undertake their studies
- the NHS, Care or Third sector organisation is responsible for ensuring the student has allocated study leave (at no cost to the University of at least four working days per month) to support their MPhil study
The MPhil project will contain a ‘Research Skills’ taught module to support learners in their study.
Project Details
The 'Future Hospital' is a network that is agile, flexible and responsive, connected by a digital infrastructure. Long-term solutions in prevention of disease, remote monitoring, early diagnosis, and detection will be key components of Future Hospitals. The Future Hospital will have better processes enhancing patient experiences and outcomes. Up to 10 part-time MPhil studentships, each for up to two years' duration, will be awarded to professionals working in the Health, Care or Third Sector.
The ‘Future Hospital’ is supporting people to be cared for in their communities with at risk populations monitored remotely and empowered to engage and be active participants in their own health and care.
The ‘Future Hospital’ will have better flows and processes, be more efficient, saving costs and enhancing patient experiences and outcomes. Future care will focus heavily on the wellbeing and prevention agenda, rather than just responding to illnesses when they occur.
Long-term solutions in prevention of disease, remote monitoring, early diagnosis, and detection will be key components of the Future Hospital, reducing burden on inpatient services, optimising staff roles and workloads and unlocking new opportunities for innovative use of hospital and virtual spaces.
We are currently inviting applications in four key areas of Strathclyde expertise and strategic focus:
The Future of Pharmacy
Future pharmacists will be prescribers. They will work fully integrated within a network of professionals, making clinical decisions throughout patient journeys. The pharmacists of the future will be in a key position to take a holistic view of patients' medicinal support and prescribe and deprescribe drugs to always optimise patient outcomes.
The Future of Surgery
Surgery will move from a single-point intervention in a patient journey to a procedure fully embedded in prehabilitation and rehabilitation. Future surgery will be a review point in lifestyle management and patient empowerment.
Mental Health
Mental health will become fully integrated into patient experience and wellbeing. Every interaction with health and social care carries the potential to nourish or to harm mental health. Integrated future mental healthcare will become a key part of patients’ treatment at all stages of the wellbeing journey.
Social Care
Social care is an inseparable part of health and wellbeing. The Future Hospital will be a small focus point for dedicated, specialist procedures. The main part of the patient’s wellbeing journey takes place outside the hospital guided and supported by strong social care networks and facilities.
Further information
Projects are anticipated to start in January 2025.
Funding details
A maximum of £5,500 is available towards the cost of tuition fees for each studentship as well as travel, consumables and publications associated with the period of PhD study thanks to philanthropic donations.
The total amount of funding for one studentship will be for a maximum of two years. Any costs beyond this duration will not be covered.
Exceptional candidates will be encouraged to proceed to PhD study. Part funding is available for PhD progression.
Funding per MPhil for duration (maximum two years)
- Postgraduate Fees, part-time 2024/25: £5,000 (over two years)
- Consumables, travel relating to research undertaken as part of MPhil, publication, conference attendance: £500
- Total funding from Strathclyde (six-year duration part-time): £5,500
While there is no funding in place for opportunities marked "unfunded", there are lots of different options to help you fund postgraduate research. Visit funding your postgraduate research for links to government grants, research councils funding and more, that could be available.
Supervisors
Academics from the University of Strathclyde will supervise the projects. Applicants should contact prospective supervisors early in the application process and get guidance on filling out the application form.
Apply
All potential applicants are advised to contact Health and Care Futures at healthandcarefutures@strath.ac.uk for any informal enquiries.
Applications should be made using the CDT Project Proposal Form (this link opens a Word document and should be returned along with the required supporting documentation).
The closing date for applications is 15 November 2024 at 12 noon.
Proposals should be submitted to healthandcarefutures@strath.ac.uk.
Entries will be reviewed and candidates with promising proposals will be invited to interview. Successful candidates will be informed by the beginning of December.
Number of places: 10
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