Doctoral Studies in Health and Welfare with Focus on Evidence-Based Practice

This doctoral programme in the subject Care Sciences and in the field of Health and Welfare with Focus on Evidence-Based Practice aims to develop the ability and skills of doctoral students both to produce a base for evidence-based knowledge and to determine how it can be implemented in the health and welfare sector and how its implementation can be evaluated.

The Doctoral (Third Cycle) Subject Care Sciences

This programme leads to a Degree of Licentiate or a Degree of Doctor in the Care Sciences, which is an interdisciplinary subject where the research concerns:

• human health-related needs and problems; and
• processes, factors and measures related to physical, mental and social health and ill health in different contexts and environments.

The study area is broad and can include, for example, the experiences of patients and their relatives of illness and care, quality of life, treatment of patients or recipients of care, effects of interventions, healthcare professionals’ experience and perspectives, and the organisation and management of health and social care. 

The research is primarily oriented towards the research conducted in our four research centres:

• Reproductive, Infant and Child Health (RICH)
• Ageing and Later Life (ReCALL)
• Knowledge Implementation and Patient Safety (KIPS)
• Public Health and Sports (RePS)

Health and Welfare with Focus on Evidence-Based Practice

The field of Health and Welfare with Focus on Evidence-Based Practice concerns the work being done at the individual and societal levels to promote people's health and social conditions as well as the development of health- and welfare-related work. Evidence-based health and welfare is when the best available scientific knowledge is weighed alongside professional experience as well as the individual user’s/client’s/patient’s situation, experience and wishes when decisions about treatment are to be made.

Learning Outcomes

By taking this programme, doctoral students will gain the competence to conduct independent research. They will also gain specialist knowledge in a specific research domain. The programme aims to develop the ability and skills of the doctoral student to produce a base for evidence-based knowledge by way of the following:

• original studies
• summary and critical review of identified scientific knowledge
• determination of how evidence-based knowledge can be implemented in the health and welfare sector
• evaluation of the implementation

The programme thus aims to develop the ability of doctoral students to produce a base for evidence-based knowledge and to fill identified knowledge gaps.

Application

Vacant PhD positions are advertised under Vacant Positions on our website.

The application can also be made by having a certificate of funding via an external employer, corresponding to two years of full-time research training for a licentiate degree or four years of full-time research training for a doctorate degree.

Vacant Positions