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ESRC-funded MSC/PhD Studentships at Lancaster University
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Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester Universities have been jointly awarded
an ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC) through which 63 studentships are available,
for students beginning their Doctoral training in October 2011.
Up to four of these studentships are available at Lancaster for PhD projects
in Quantitative Methods, and are open to candidates of any nationality.
Lancaster has exceptional strength in quantitative methods for the social
sciences, which is primarily based in the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics or in the School of Health and Medicine.
In the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Applied Statistics group
led by Prof. Brian Francis has a long-established reputation as one of the UK's
strongest research groups in Social Statistics, with a strong focus on
quantitative criminology, quantitative sociology, social research methods
and social medicine. Current research areas include longitudinal latent
variable techniques, latent transition analysis, IRT models, statistical
modelling of longitudinal categorical data, statistical linguistics and
financial statistics. Joint supervision with a second supervisor in the
relevant social science discipline is common.
In the School of Health and Medicine, the CHICAS group led by Prof Peter Diggle
has an international reputation in the development and application of spatial
and longitudinal statistical methods and their substantive application in the
health sciences, with a particular focus on social, environmental and
tropical disease epidemiology. PhD projects are often linked to collaborative
partners in the UK and internationally: current examples include the National
Health Service and the Health Protection Agency (UK), the World Health
Organisation (Switzerland), the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control
(Burkina Faso), Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Yale Universities (USA) and Fiocruz
Research Foundation (Brazil).
Candidates for these studentships should provide a full CV together with a
covering letter explaining their motivation for undertaking PhD studies
and an indication of their specific interests within the general area of
statistical methods relevant to the social sciences and/or in applications
to particular areas of the social sciences. Applications involving the
secondary analysis of survey and administrative datasets are particularly
welcome. Please send applications to:
Angela Mercer, Department of Maths and Statistics, Fylde College,
Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK (A.Mercer-at-Lancaster.ac.uk)
Informal inquiries about these studentships are encouraged
by e-mail to either Brian Francis (b.Francis-at-Lancaster.ac.uk)
or Peter Diggle (p.Diggle-at-Lancaster.ac.uk)
Short-listed candidates will be expected to refine their research proposals in
consultation with their potential supervisors, with a view to making a full
application to the university by 25 March 2011.
Each studentship will include fees, an annual stipend of £16,590 and a travel/ research training support
fund of approximately £1000. Successful candidates will normally receive funding
for either three or four years. Four-year awards will be structured as 1+3 years,
consisting of a full-time taught MSc
in the first year followed by three years of PhD study. In all cases,
continuation of the award beyond the first year will be subject to
satisfactory academic progress.
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