Centre for Person-centred Practice (CPcPR)
Centre Overview
The CPcPR at QMU, Edinburgh, is committed to contributing to a health and social care system that has person-centred practice truly embedded at its core.
We conduct innovative, integrated, and practice-based research in collaboration with partners, enhancing people’s care experiences, people's wellbeing, and making a positive difference in lives locally, nationally and internationally.
The research within the centre has developed from the underpinning principle of person centredness within health and social care to more specific themes, of health and wellbeing of people with long term conditions and their families, use of creative methods to enhance health and wellbeing.
Meet our Person-centred Practice Experts
We aim to have local and global influence for research and development in person centred practice across health and social care.
CPcPR Staff
CPcPR Focus & Values
Within all our research activities, we are motivated by the desire to support the health and wellness of the people who receive and deliver health and social care locally, nationally and internationally. A set of principles and assumptions guides our approach.
- We believe that health and social care systems across Scotland and beyond can and should be continually improved by integrating innovative, person-centred interventions and models of care.
- We are committed to working collaboratively with diverse partners, including health and social care staff, other researchers, and people with lived experience, to maximize our positive impact on people’s lives.
- We value rigorous, ethical, and inclusive research practices that respect and engage with the diverse communities we serve.
- We strive to translate our research findings into real-world impact, informing practice, policy, and education to enhance people’s care and wellbeing experiences.
Doctoral Study in Person-Centred Practice
The Centre for Person-centred Practice Research (CPcPR) has a focus on research that enhances service users (patients, residents, clients, learners) experiences of care and learning across a variety of care settings. We offer an excellent learning culture for those interested in research that makes a difference to the lives of people who experience health and social care services, as well as those who provide these services. Researchers in the CPcRC have extensive expertise in a variety of methodologies that are participatory, collaborative and inclusive in nature and enable real change to happen in practice.
We welcome applications for research that intends to contribute to the field of person-centred practice or its research and draws on participatory and/or creative research principles.
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