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PhD Studentship: Collaboration in a Cold Climate: Integrated Care Systems in England’s Health and Care Sector

Are you interested in how NHS organisations can collaborate better despite mounting financial and operational pressures? Would you like to learn more about the integration of health and social care? Are you keen to be directly involved in creating that knowledge? If so, this fully-funded doctoral studentship could be for you. The studentship is a collaboration between King’s College London and South East London Integrated Care System (SEL ICS). It would pay your tuition fees and provide a stipend of around £20k per year to enable you to do a PhD at King’s College London focused on these vital issues.

This studentship will investigate the challenges of collaborating in today’s health and social care sector. It will offer a student the opportunity to explore some of the most pressing challenges facing contemporary public organisations. It will be supervised by Dr Sam van Elk, Dr Kalpa Kharicha and Dr Alec Fraser at KCL with additional support from SEL ICS. The studentship will offer close links to the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Policy Research Unit (based in the KCL Policy Institute), which works closely with the Department for Health and Social Care.

This would represent an excellent opportunity for those who would like to move towards a research career or simply want to continue in public service armed with a deeper understanding of collaboration, governance and integration. Strong candidates will have a good background in qualitative social scientific research, with a degree in a relevant social science, health or social care discipline, and will meet the King’s College London entry requirements. We particularly welcome applications from those with experience of working in the health and social care sectors.

For more details, and to apply, please visit:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGV596/phd-studentship-collaboration-in-a-cold-climate-integrated-care-systems-in-englands-health-and-care-sector

Please note: while this advert runs for 1 month, the opportunity is open for applications until 5 p.m. on the 8th of May.