General Practice and Primary Care

PhD and MD opportunities

Register your interest

If you are interested in PhD or MD opportunities within the area of general practice and primary care, and for more information, please contact Professor Kate O'Donnell.

Current PhD/MD students

A list of current, and recently completed, doctoral students is available here.

Subject areas in which GP&PC staff can offer supervision

• Frances Mair Professor of Primary Care
  • e-Health particularly relating to implementation/integration and knowledge transfer opportunities as well as complex interventions (from professional, patient/carer, or public perspectives)
  • Heart failure - particularly relating to palliative care issues, co-mordidity (particularly depression) and complex interventions
  • Research using Normalisation Process Theory
  • Minimally disruptive medicine addressing issues of treatment burden and multiple morbidity
• Stewart Mercer Professor of Primary Care Research
  • Multimorbidity
  • Comorbidity
  • Long term conditions
  • Mental health
  • Empathy/patient-centred care
• Jill Morrison Professor of General Practice
  • Primary care mental health, particularly the management of depression
  • Learning disabilities
  • Medical education
• Kate O'Donnell Professor of Primary Care Research & Development
  • Organisation and delivery of services
  • Skill mix and professional boundaries
  • Normalisation of new services and technologies
  • Care for underserved populations, in particular migrant populations
  • Approaches to anticipatory care
• Graham Watt Professor of General Practice
  • Inequalities in health and health care
  • Health and disease in families
  • Development of primary health care
  • Inverse care law
  • Integrated care