Postgraduate research
Postgraduate students within the School of Medicine are central to our learning community, and we can guarantee a warm welcoming community and campus life. We also offer several on-campus and distance learning opportunities where we extend our warm welcome and strong ethos of quality supervision, research training and digital modes of working to students off campus.
School of Medicine postgraduate students undertake a broad range of clinical, laboratory and educational research underpinned by methodological strengths including biostatistics (including big data analytics using medical record databases, clinical trials, and prognostic modelling and risk prediction), mixed methods research, and systematic reviews and evidence synthesis.
Our key memberships include:
- NIHR National School for Primary Care Research
- NIHR Collaborations for Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands
- Versus Arthritis Primary Care Centre of Excellence
- NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education
We also host students in key doctoral training partnerships including:
- Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians
- ESRC The North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
- NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme
Faculty PGR
The Faculty PGR Director Dr Oksana Kehoe and School PGR Lead Dr Emma can provide academic and process support and advice, alongside your supervisory team. Faculty Student Representatives collate your ideas and concerns and feedback to School and University committees where policies are developed.
Each faculty has a PGR Committee who:
- Supports PGR student recruitment, progress and submission
- Meets regularly and by email
- Monitors supervision and progress (Monitor PGR progress reports, PDLPs, training records, thesis submission forms)
- Approves applications for training bursaries etc.
The Keele Doctoral Academy
The PGR Lead in the School of Medicine works closely with the Keele Doctoral Academy (KDA). The KDA brings together expertise from across Keele’s academic and professional support services, to aid training and develop researcher skill sets. Whether you are a postgraduate researcher, supervisor, or other member of research staff, we will ensure you work in pro-active and supportive cross-collaborative research community.
Postgraduate research at Keele
