Fully-funded Wellcome PhD Studentship - Starting September 2022

We are currently advertising one fully-funded studentship to join our Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science in September 2022.  

This is a rapid recruitment process and is separate to our annual recruitment round (which will run later in the year as normal).  It is only open to UK or Irish applicants who are eligible for home tuition fees.  

The Wellcome DTC it is an exciting cohort-based four-year programme that provides students with a unique experience including masters modules, research attachments, and opportunities to question senior scientists and public health leaders.  It provides a fully-funded four-year studentship including:

• Tuitions fees
• A tax-free living costs stipend at the generous Wellcome rates
• An extremely generous research training and support grant of £53,500
• Transition funding to support the student's next steps post-PhD of at least £36,160

For more information about the programme, please see our website and the FindAPhD advert.  The deadline for applications is midnight on Friday 29th July.  Interviews will take place on 8th and 9th August. 

University of Sheffield Studentship

 Aggregating multi-domain wellbeing across individuals

Funded PhD supervised by Professor Aki Tsuchiya and Professor Robin Purshouse

Public policies need to be evaluated across multiple domains (or dimensions) of wellbeing. In engineering, this is known as a multi-objective optimisation problem. In welfare economics, there are different approaches for aggregating multi-domain wellbeing across individuals.  Of interest here is whether or not the aggregation should be linear additive.  This PhD will look at the role of aversion to inequalities across individuals in terms of overall wellbeing and/or domain specific wellbeing, and their effects on aggregation.  The project will involve a literature review, the analysis of secondary data, collection of stated preference primary data, and a case study using multi-criteria decision-analysis.

Link to more details and how to apply:

Aggregating multi-domain wellbeing across individuals at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

 

 

PhD Studentship in causal inference for the analysis of cancer registry data

https://yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk/

We are offering a fully-funded, full-time, 3.5 year PhD studentship in Epidemiology, Biostatistics or Health Economics. The position is jointly funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR) and BresMed Health Solutions Ltd. It is based in the section of Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS), part of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. We welcome applications to undertake methods research into the use of causal inference methods to analyse cancer registry datasets, with a particular focus on the use of real world evidence to estimate the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments.

Proposed start date: 1st September 2020 (latest)

https://www.bresmed.com/

Apply here

Large United Kingdom cancer registry datasets (e.g. the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) dataset) can be linked to hospital and primary care data. The student would access either English or Scottish data and would investigate the use of cutting-edge causal inference methods to estimate the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments in practice. This research is of particular relevance given the planned use of SACT data to inform reimbursement decisions for treatments placed in the English Cancer Drugs Fund. You will be supervised by Dr Nicholas Latimer and Emeritus Professor Ron Akehurst. The supervisory team will be supplemented by experts from around the world, offering the opportunity to develop international collaborations.

ScHARR has over 300 multidisciplinary staff, and 450 postgraduate students from more than 50 countries around the world. It provides an internationally recognised programme of health services and public health research, knowledge transfer and teaching.

For more information about ScHARR visit: http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/

YCR works in partnership with researchers, scientists and clinicians, the NHS, Public Health England and other health organisations and charities to make life-changing improvements in cancer care. This PhD should act as a catalyst for change to facilitate the delivery of better cancer services in Yorkshire and further afield. Dr Nicholas Latimer is a Senior YCR Fellow and is using YCR funding to support this PhD studentship.

For more information about YCR visit: https://yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk/

BresMed Health Solutions Ltd is an independent health economic and outcomes research consultancy with more than 150 staff based on the UK, India, Ireland, the Netherlands and the USA. It offers services in evidence review, evidence development, communication and strategy and insight.

For more information about BresMed visit: https://www.bresmed.com/

Entry Requirements:
- Honours Bachelor degree (2.1 or above) in a relevant subject
- Merit (or equivalent) in MSc in epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, medical statistics, applied statistics or related subject OR equivalent experience
- Strong computer skills including use of statistical software packages, e.g. Stata, R or SAS
- Strong interest in applying statistical thinking and methods to problems in health-related fields
- Good communication skills
- Strong organisational and administrative skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and in a multidisciplinary team

How to apply:
Please complete a University Postgraduate Research Application form available here: http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply

Please clearly state the title of the studentship, the prospective main supervisor (Dr Nicholas Latimer) and select ScHARR as the department.
Please also include:
• an outline of your proposed PhD study (approximately 3 pages of A4)
• a covering letter explaining why you wish to apply for this studentship
• a copy of your CV

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr

Funding Notes

The studentship will include tuition fees at the home/EU/international student rate plus an annual maintenance grant (at the Research Council Doctoral Stipend rate which is currently £14,999 for the year 2019/20). In addition there is an annual Research Training Support Grant of £1,000 to cover other expenses such as conference attendance, training courses, equipment and books.

Full-time, three year PhD studentships in Health Economics

PhD studentships as part of the Policy Research Unit in Economic Methods of Evaluation in Health & Care Interventions

We are offering up to two fully-funded, full-time, three year PhD studentships in Health Economics. We will provide the successful student with the opportunity to study in an area of health economics of direct relevance to the work of the Policy Research Unit (PRU). You will be based in the section of Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) which is part of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), at the University of Sheffield.  

Potential research topic areas are:

• Valuing well-being alongside health
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/valuing-well-being-alongside-health-what-can-and-should-be-done/?p110553 

• Capturing caregiver burden within the new eQALY measure
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/capturing-caregiver-burden-within-the-new-eqaly-measure/?p110557


• Valuation of severe health states

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/valuation-of-severe-health-states/?p110558  

These are on a competition funded basis.


You will be supervised by a team from within the PRU in conjunction with others from ScHARR. The supervisory team will be selected to reflect the research interests and expertise necessary, according to the chosen PhD topic. We will also involve advisors from the Department of Health and Social Care as part of your supervisory team. 

The studentship will include tuition fees (at the home/EU student rate: applications from elsewhere are welcome but would need to self-fund the difference in fees) plus an annual maintenance grant (at the Research Council Doctoral Stipend rate which is currently £15,009 for the year 2019/20). In addition, there is an annual Research Training Support Grant of £750 to cover other expenses such as conference attendance, training courses, equipment and books.

Candidates must have a First or Upper Second-Class Honours Degree, and a Merit at masters or significant, relevant work or research experience.


Enquiries:
Please contact Professor Allan Wailoo (a.j.wailoo@sheffield.ac.uk) for more information about these studentships before submitting an application. 

How to apply:
To apply, complete a University Postgraduate Research Application form available here: www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply 

Clearly state the title of the studentship, the prospective main supervisor and select ScHARR as the department.

You will also need to include:
• a covering letter explaining why you wish to apply for this studentship.
• a copy of your CV.

Closing date for applications: Friday July 12th 2019 at 5pm. Interviews for short-listed candidates are expected to take place within 2-3 weeks of that date. 

Latest date for commencing PhD: 1st January 2020.

Five fully-funded PhD studentships available at ScHARR

Wellcome Trust

Five fully-funded PhD studentships available in the Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre for Public Health, Health Economics and Decision Science.

Generously funded by the Wellcome Trust and University of Sheffield, our four-year PhD Programme in Public Health Decision Science provides unique interdisciplinary training to equip graduates to be public health leaders and decision scientists of the future.

We award 5 studentships per year (three funded by the Wellcome Trust and two by the University of Sheffield), two of which can cover overseas fees. Each studentship provides a stipend of £19,919 pa increasing to £23,997 pa over the 4 years, tuition fees for 4 years, worth £5,052 pa for Home/EU students or £18,750 pa for international students and research costs.

The closing date for receipt of all required documentation and references is 5 December 2016.

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BMZ273/five-fully-funded-phd-studentships-available-in-the-wellcome-trust-doctoral-training-centre-for-public-health-economics-and-decision-science

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/prospective_students/researchdegrees/wellcometrustphds