What do we do?
Members of the Unit come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including Sociology; Social Policy; Nursing; Information Management; Human Resources Management; Political Science and Health Promotion and are located within two university faculties: the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and the Faculty of Business and Law.
HPRU Members possess a wide range of skills and expertise in a variety of research methods and have an excellent track record of research. They contributed to the University's RAE performance in 2001 and 2008 in subject areas including Nursing and Midwifery, Business and Management Studies, Politics and International Studies, Social Work and Social Policy. Please click on the link to view the RAE quality profiles: http://submissions.rae.ac.uk/results/qualityProfile.aspx?id=67&type=hei
The Unit has collaborated with other research units/centres within the institution, including the Centre for Comparative Housing Research; Mary Seacole Research Centre; Centre for Social Action; Local Governance Research Unit and Primary Care Unit.
Collectively the Unit has a wide range of interests which focus on four main areas:
- Public Health - including social and economic context of health; health and ethnicity; health promotion; health and risk.
- The Health Professions - including professional regulation; alternative and complementary therapies.
- Public Participation in Health and Health Care - including lay involvement in the health service; complaints in health care settings.
- Health Service Reform - including reorganisation; restructuring and the management of change in the NHS and Public Private Partnerships.
