Key Information
- Duration: Part-time, 60 months (5-7 years)
- Start dates & application deadlines:
- Starting January 2027 – Apply before Oct 2026
Overview
The professional doctorate in Health Studies, degree delivered at Cardiff University, is a part-time doctoral research degree. It is fully equivalent to the PhD, but substantially different from it in that it is strongly professionally oriented, focussing on ‘applied’ rather than ‘pure’ research.
Key Facts
- While the PhD generally prepares candidates for a research-based career, the professional doctorate is a more in-service orientated degree, addressing the career needs of practising professionals, particularly those in or who aspire to senior positions within their professions. The linkages between research-based knowledge and its application in a wide range of professional settings are central to this doctorate.
- They offer an integrated professional doctorate scheme within which education, health, social work and social policy professionals engage together in integrated learning for some of the taught modules. This unique inter-professional learning allows you to reflect on what is shared across professional boundaries and what is distinctive to their own occupational traditions. Above all, a professional doctorate is an opportunity to examine contemporary leading theories and research evidence, and to apply these within the professional context.
Career Prospects
- Typically professional doctorate candidates are employed when they study with us, although current employment is not a condition of entry.
- Graduates are able to further their careers within their employment settings or move beyond these into, for example, Higher Education, policy and planning, and/or research development and management.
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Programme Structure
Research Topics
- Science, technology and risk
- Crime, security and justice
- Knowledge, learning and pedagogy
- Culture, interaction and everyday life
- Children and young people
- Education, skills and labour markets
- Inequalities, division and diversity
Admission Requirements
Academic Requirements
- GPA: First Class
English Requirements
- TOEFL iBT: 100
- PTE Academic: 76
- IELTS: 7
Other Requirements
- You must possess a good first degree and usually have completed a master’s degree. You should also have two or more years’ professional experience in a field appropriate to your chosen pathway.
- Much of the module learning and associated assignments aim to support applied professional development and you are expected to have experience of - or current access to - professional settings in a field appropriate to your doctoral degree.
Make sure you meet all requirements
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in AUD.
- International: 72,761 AUD / year (≈ 38,200 GBP / year)
- Domestic: 9,535 AUD / year (≈ 5,006 GBP / year)
- Additional Details: Part-time fee: £2,503
Living Costs
Cardiff, United Kingdom: 1,196-2,030 AUD / month
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