This is going to various email lists. The Geography Dept currently 
has a bursary available for PhD work in the general area of the 
geography of health / health care which is one of this department's 
research strengths. A possible line of inquiry might be to link a PhD 
to the Portsmouth Voluntary hospitals project which has built up a 
substantial database on British hospital provision and utilisation 
c.1870-1944, in collaboration with others (e.g. QMW). Those 
principally involved in the project are John Mohan (portsmouth) 
Martin Gorsky (now Wolverhampton; formerly project research fellow) 
and Tim Willis (current project researcher). Possibilities might 
include some GIS work on hospital catchments and patient flows; some 
work has been done on this mainly with respect to London, but not 
much elsewhere and this is an important issue for research in terms 
of investigating questions about the impacts of hospital provision on 
health standards. Other angles include investigating topics not yet 
explored using the database such as relationships between hospital 
provision and other forms of institutional care, or the 
geographies of hospital finance. 

If you have or know of potential candidates (minimum 2.1 in a 
relevant discipline) please draw their attention to this. Funds do 
not cover overseas fees, but we can consider candidates who could 
fund the difference between UK and overseas fees (currently the gap 
is £5200 p.a.). The bursary is available now and we need to fill it 
as soon as possible.

Many thanks

John Mohan
John Mohan
Geography Dept
University of Portsmouth
Buckingham Building
Lion Terrace
Portsmouth PO1 3HE
Tel (01705)-842493
Fax (01705) 842512


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