PhD Scholarship in Medicine, Healthcare, Public Health and Social Care

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PhD Scholarship in Medicine, Healthcare, Public Health and Social Care

Award

A PhD scholarship including:

• a stipend of £17,668 per year
• a tuition fee waiver for three years
• an annual expense allowance of £500

Deadline

30 April 2023

Eligibility Criteria

• The scholarship will be offered to a student working on one of the projects outlined in the research focus section below.
• The successful applicant will be required to undertake 50 hours of teaching related work each year.
• You must have applied for both a place on the PhD programme as well as a scholarship by the scholarship application deadline of 30 April 2023.
• Applications will be considered based on the quality of the research proposal and its alignment with the focus outlined below. The strengths of the individual candidate (in relation to academic competence and commitment) will also be considered.
• All scholars must live in the UK, close to a university campus site.

Scholarship Focus

Applications are invited in the following research areas:

Healthcare: professional regulation and professional practice on quality of care; whole systems approach in workforce practice and/or policy development; self-management of long-term conditions; access of under-represented groups/communities to health care services.

Mental Health: coproduction and peer support in mental health care; suicide prevention; physical and psychological health and wellbeing in pregnancy and postpartum.

Social Care: critical analysis of inequalities/challenges in care; models of practice education and inclusive practice; person-centred and integrated care in dementia; migrant and refugee mental health.

Diagnostic Radiography: diagnostic accuracy; chest imaging and artificial intelligence; medical imaging and clinical reporting.

Implementation: implementation and improvement, specifically research focussing on intervention programmes in areas such as patient care and rehabilitation; cross-cultural and intergenerational issues in public health and health promotion.

Medicine: regenerative myoskeletal medicine, foetal medicine.

Arts and Health: impact of creative/artistic group activities on health and wellbeing; community development for healthy environments; innovative clinical and artistic connections and practice.

Digital Health: workforce upskilling in assistive technologies for health and social care; quality of life and robotic assistive technologies for children with neurodisability; digital literacy in care practice.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your proposal, please contact: FMHSC.PhDassistant@canterbury.ac.uk

How to apply

• You will be asked to interview with a potential supervisor in the Faculty and will be required to submit a research proposal
• Submit your application via the website
• Click on the Apply now button in the blue bar at the bottom of the page
• Select ‘Medicine, healthcare, public health and social care’ for the area of research
• Select your subject area
• Select the award
• Select your preferred mode of study and your preferred start date
• Tick the box on the proposal form to indicate an application for a scholarship alongside a place on the PhD programme.