University of Southampton, UK
School of Health Sciences
The University of Southampton (SOTON), one of the leading universities in Britain, was founded in 1952 and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of UK Universities. Southampton is an excellent venue for conducting cutting-edge research and for providing high quality education, and has been ranked 96th in the 2019 QS World University Rankings. It has been ranked 8th in the UK for research, and has 97% of its research environment rated as world leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework, 2014). It has more than 17,100 undergraduate and 7,500 postgraduate students from over 140 different countries.
The School of Health Sciences at Southampton was the most highly ranked faculty of its type in the UKs last research assessment (Research Excellence Framework 2014), ranked #1 for research intensity with all elements of our research impact and environment rated as internationally excellent. In the 2019 QS subject ranking Nursing within Health Sciences was ranked #5 in the world. Our Health Work Research groups contains a multi-disciplinary team of world renowned researchers in workforce research, led by Professor Peter Griffiths who in 2017 was appointed senior investigator by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Senior Investigators are among the most prominent and prestigious researchers funded by the NIHR and the most outstanding leaders of patient and people-based research within the NIHR Faculty. The team brings expertise and application in the use of routinely collected data to determine the effects of changes in the organisation and delivery of nursing care, design and evaluation of complex interventions using mixed methods, the effects of organisational development programmes in hospital, process evaluation and collaborative approaches to organisational development, including learning collaboratives.
The School of Health Sciences at Southampton was the most highly ranked faculty of its type in the UKs last research assessment (Research Excellence Framework 2014), ranked #1 for research intensity with all elements of our research impact and environment rated as internationally excellent. In the 2019 QS subject ranking Nursing within Health Sciences was ranked #5 in the world. Our Health Work Research groups contains a multi-disciplinary team of world renowned researchers in workforce research, led by Professor Peter Griffiths who in 2017 was appointed senior investigator by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Senior Investigators are among the most prominent and prestigious researchers funded by the NIHR and the most outstanding leaders of patient and people-based research within the NIHR Faculty. The team brings expertise and application in the use of routinely collected data to determine the effects of changes in the organisation and delivery of nursing care, design and evaluation of complex interventions using mixed methods, the effects of organisational development programmes in hospital, process evaluation and collaborative approaches to organisational development, including learning collaboratives.
