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PhD studentship

15 February 2012

PhD studentship is available from the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol. This highly successful multidisciplinary Unit would welcome applications from individuals from a range of research background.

PhD studentship is available from the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol. This highly successful multidisciplinary Unit would welcome applications from individuals from a range of research backgrounds, e.g. health services research, economics, medical statistics, medical sociology, health psychology, human geography.

We would particularly welcome applications in one of the research areas listed below:

Lead supervisor, research areas

  • Dr Sara Brookes: Design and analysis of randomised controlled trials in primary care, development and validation of questionnaires
  • Prof Gene Feder: Domestic violence, management of coronary artery disease in primary care
  • Dr Alastair Hay: Diagnosis and treatment infections in primary care
  • Dr Alison Heawood: Qualitative methods, patient-practitioner relationships and interaction, patient experiences of illness and healthcare
  • Dr Sandra Hollinghurst: Economics of primary health care, methodological issues around economic evaluation in a primary care setting
  • Dr David Kessler: Primary care mental health, CBT, use of technology to deliver mental health interventions
  • Prof John Macleod: Health inequality, substance use, sexual health, data linkage
  • Dr Alan Montgomery: Randomised controlled trials
  • Dr Sarah Purdy: Emergency and urgent care, unplanned hospital admissions, end of Life Care, primary care dermatology
  • Prof Chris Salisbury: Improving access to and delivery of primary care
  • Dr Katrina Turner: Childhood obesity, primary care mental health, qualitative research

Potential applicants should look at the website for the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care to find out more about the current projects and interests of the academic staff listed above, and then make informal contact via email with one of these staff in order to discuss ideas for research in these or other related areas.

The individual should then apply online via the "Apply Now" system. In addition to the fields required, as part of the online form or as scanned attachments, the applicant should also provide an academic curriculum vitae; a covering letter indicating topic of interest, suitability for study and stating that it is the Primary Care studentship which is being applied for; a research proposal of 2-4 sides of A4. Potential supervisor(s) should be named within the proposal. Applications should be made by the 26 March 2012.

The studentship will be awarded on a competitive basis to a UK applicant and will fund home tuition fee and a stipend, with a small budget for travel, training and research expenses. The stipend for the first year is expected to be £19,919. Funding will be for 3 years and will be available from October 2012.

The Academic Unit of Primary Care Health is based within the School of Social and Community Medicine, which is a leading centre for research and teaching in population health sciences. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the School's research was rated extremely highly. Within the Unit of Primary Health Care, there is methodological expertise in trial design, observational studies, qualitative research methods and economic analysis. As one of the leading academic centres for primary care in the UK, the Unit is a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research.

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