Funded DPhil/PhD Studentship Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford 2023
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| Type | Job |
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| Dates | - 2023/07/28 |
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| Address | Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford |
| Geolocation | 51° 45' 36", -1° 15' 43" |
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| Submission deadline | 2023/07/28 |
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| Tweet | The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences is inviting applications for a funded PhD in the Medical Sociology & Health Experiences research group supervised by Rebecca Barnes starting October 2023 DL: 28th July. |
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Funded DPhil/PhD Studentship Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford 2023:
Details:
‘Improving the management of patient risk in urgent primary care’
Funded DPhil/PhD Studentship
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences is inviting applications for a funded DPhil/PhD Studentship, to commence in October 2023. The student will be based in the Medical Sociology & Health Experiences research group and supervised by Dr Rebecca Barnes, with internal and external collaborators. The Medical Sociology & Health Experiences research group has an international reputation as a centre of excellence in qualitative methods and social science informed research. We do applied research directed to making a positive difference to health and care.
Risk work is integral to urgent primary care encounters (e.g., NHS 111, GP Out-of-Hours, Urgent Treatment Centres), but many features of interpreting, communicating, and recording risk remain poorly understood and under researched. Without greater understanding, we cannot provide adequate guidance to clinicians about what information to share with patients or advise patients (or their family members) about what questions to ask to keep them safe. It could also mean that policies or guidelines that address risk problems might have unintended consequences.
This funded DPhil/PhD studentship is a unique opportunity to understand the process of interpreting, communicating, and recording risk for different patient groups (e.g., terminally ill people, very sick children and older people who are living with frailty) during urgent contacts with primary care services. You will undertake a mixed methods study, at the heart of which will be a conversation analysis of recorded urgent primary care encounters. Conversation analysis is an inductive qualitative approach to the analysis of recorded social interaction, focusing on verbal and bodily conduct. Detailed comparative analysis of multiple episodes allows identification and explication of recurrent patterns and their social interactional consequences.
Through this research your findings will highlight areas of risk work clinicians, patients (and/or their family members) currently find challenging, and whether there are recurring contexts for these challenges, as well as successful strategies developed by participants to negotiate and overcome them. Findings will be disseminated to clinicians and policy makers with the assistance of the supervisory team.
Award details
This three-year award covers full university fees at the home rate, with a maintenance stipend of £20,775 per annum and support for research training, as well as research activity. The award is available only to successful applicants who fulfil entry requirements. To check your eligibility, visit: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-primary-health-care
Application process
To be considered for this DPhil, please first check our Graduate Course entry requirements and Application Guide available here. You will be required to provide a CV and two references.
Application deadline
Midday 28th July 2023. Interviews will be held on Teams.
Informal enquiries about the research prior to application are strongly encouraged and can be directed to Dr Rebecca Barnes (rebecca.barnes@phc.ox.ac.uk).
