PhD Health Informatics

If you're interested in pursuing a postgraduate research degree in Health Informatics, Portsmouth is the perfect place to do it.

At a time when lifestyles are changing and the population is ageing, our current research in Health Informatics is exploring how information technology can potentially ease the pressure on the health and social care sectors, and help people live longer, happier and healthier lives.

As a postgraduate research degree student, you'll have the opportunity to make your own contribution to the work we're doing – and play a role in transforming our research into action.

Through our research, we're improving the design of computer systems and wellbeing services to make the delivery of healthcare more efficient and cost-effective. By helping health and care providers use data more wisely, our work is helping them to save time, while improving the accuracy of their clinical decisions, and informing new standards and techniques for treatment and care.

Our researchers have extensive practical experience working in Information Technology in the National Health Service (NHS), excellent links with other universities, professional bodies and global industry – and extensive expertise in the fields of mathematical and computer modelling, data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR).