HEDS is part of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. We undertake research, teaching, training and consultancy on all aspects of health related decision science, with a particular emphasis on health economics, HTA and evidence synthesis.

Tuesday 6 June 2017

PhD Scholarship in Healthcare Decision Modelling and Natural Language Processing

HEDS has been working with the University of Sheffield’s Department of Computer Science to explore how Natural Language Processing techniques can be integrated in evidence synthesis studies. The collaboration has resulted in funding for a PhD scholarship in “Supporting  Healthcare Decision Modelling with Natural Language Processing”. The scholarship will be jointly supervised by Dr Mark Stevenson, Department of Computer Science and Professsor Jim Chilcott and Dr Suzy Paisley (ScHARR).

Applications for the scholarship are now invited. Details can be found here.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Mark Sevenson (mark.stevenson@sheffield.ac.uk), Jim Chilcott (j.b.chilcott@sheffield.ac.uk) or Suzy Paisley (s.paisley@sheffield.ac.uk).

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