The centre provides a vibrant postgraduate community where you work closely with experienced academics to develop your knowledge and expertise. We support a wide range of research opportunities and help you work towards your research degree with: supervision by an active researcher in your chosen area; access to excellent facilities and learning resources; help to enhance your career portfolio; access to faculty seminars and workshops; lively debate and discussion with colleagues. During the course you critically investigate and evaluate an approved topic and display an understanding of suitable research methods, with the aim of making an original contribution to knowledge in your subject area. You present your work in a thesis, then explain and defend it during an oral viva voce examination. Our main areas of expertise reflect our research programmes. These include: service delivery and organisation; inter-professional and multi-disciplinary education and working; rehabilitation and recovery; ageing and older people; children, young people and families; ethnicity, culture and health; social inclusion; maternal and child health; clinical and public health science.