IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
MRC, EPSRC and ESRC PhD Studentships & Collaborative Studentships in
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Social Statistics
We are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to join a
prestigious and stimulating research environment centred on the Departments
of Epidemiology & Public Health and Medical Statistics & Evaluation. The
departments' focus includes leading-edge work in spatial statistics and
Bayesian statistical methods, epidemiology, medical statistics, statistical
computing, clinical trials and meta-analysis. Project areas are suggested
below, but the Departments would be pleased to discuss with candidates
other projects within their fields of expertise.
MRC-FUNDED RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS: we can offer two Research Studentships,
and one Collaborative Research Studentship in conjunction with the Water
Research Centre. One of the Research Studentships will be in Quantitative
Biology. Studentships will commence in October, 1998.
MRC Research Studentships are available in the following areas:
Space-time interactions between cardio-respiratory mortality and air
pollution across London;
Methods for investigating the relationship between underlying risk and
treatment benefit in meta-analysis;
Heterogeneity in couple fertility: the use of frailty models;
Modelling the population transmission of gonococcal infection in the
population;
Geographical patterns in asthma hospital admissions - a small-area
analysis of Hospital Episodes Statistics;
Bayesian methods for modelling variation in health indicators;
Transformation in the analysis of hierarchical medical data, with focus
on fetal monitoring;
Errors-in-variables modelling in nutritional epidemiology;
Other project areas could also be considered in discussion with
appropriate supervisors in the departments.
An MRC Collaborative Research Studentship is available in one of the
following areas:
Adverse reproductive outcomes and exposure to chlorination by-products in
the water supply;
Development of exposure modelling techniques for epidemiological studies
considering constituents of drinking water;
Background incidence of gastro-intestinal tract disease and water-borne
micro-organisms.
EPSRC COLLABORATIVE STUDENTSHIP: available under the Imperial College/Water
Research Centre Postgraduate Training Partnership Scheme, in the area of
development of exposure modelling techniques for epidemiological studies
considering constituents of drinking water.
ESRC 1998 RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP COMPETITION: we are one of six recognised
outlets for training in social statistics under ESRC rules. Applications
are invited from individuals who wish to be considered for inclusion in the
1997/98 competition. Available project areas are in social statistics, and
include investigating the link between deprivation and spatio-temporal
variability in risk, and modelling health demand/need/supply at small-area
scale. Studentships will commence in October, 1998.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Paul Elliott, Epidemiology &
Public Health (email: [log in to unmask], telephone 0171 594 3328),
Professor Simon Thompson, Medical Statistics & Evaluation (email:
[log in to unmask], telephone: 0181 383 1572), Professor Patrick
Royston, Medical Statistics & Evaluation ([log in to unmask], telephone:
0181 383 8425), Dr Jon Wakefield, Epidemiology & Public Health
([log in to unmask], telephone: 0171 594 3336).
Applications, including CV and the names of two referees, should be
received no later than Friday, 17th April, and should be sent to Simon
Sheffield, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College
School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, email:
[log in to unmask], fax 0171 402 2150.
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