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Dear AllStat, I would like to draw to your attention to the latest opportunities for PhD studentships that are currently available with the MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health. Note: Closing date for applications: Thursday 13th January 2011. ----- 3-Year PhD Studentships Available from October 2011 ----- Applications are invited for up to ten PhD studentships within the MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, starting in October 2011. We particularly seek candidates with a strong interest in cardio-respiratory disease, reproductive, environmental and spatial epidemiology, environmental sciences, risk assessment and modelling, air and water pollution, biomarkers, environmental toxicology, biostatistics and metabonomics. The Centre is a joint collaboration between Imperial College London and Kingıs College London with the mission to become an international centre of excellence for research and training on the health effects of environmental pollutants, and the translation of knowledge acquired into national and international policy. The Centre has an emphasis on collaborative work between its constituent research groups and students will be part of a multidisciplinary team with internationally recognised expertise. As a minimum, attainment of a UK 2:1 degree or equivalent, and appropriate training at Masters level in a relevant discipline is expected. Successful applicants must fulfil the College admissions criteria prior to enrolment. The studentships provide a stipend of £18,000 p.a. Tuition fees are covered at the Home/EU rate. There is no provision for overseas (non Home/EU) student fees within this scheme. Details of the available PhD projects for these studentships can be found on the Centre website at the following address: http://www.environment-health.ac.uk ----- Projects for the studentships include: - Modelling the mortality effects of global and local environmental factors - Bayesian methods for integration of individual and aggregated data in epidemiological studies of environment and health. - Identifying predictive biomarkers of human cardiovascular disease risk using metabolic profiling. - Health effects of welding. - Health effects of indoor nitrogen dioxide. - Health effects of environmental exposure to agricultural pesticides. - Statistical methods for the analysis and interpretation of correlated exposure metrics within a time series framework. - Development of uncertainty analysis of the CMAQ modelling system in the UK. - Community health impacts of large scale biocomposting. - Investigation of the effects, and cellular translocation, of inhaled nano-sized environmental and manufactured materials at the blood-gas barrier of the lung: implications for cardiovascular reactivity. - Development and application of novel chiral analytical methods for metabolic profiling. Additional studentship projects may be posted in the near future. ----- For more detailed information on specific projects, applicants are advised to contact the relevant supervisor for an informal discussion. Contact details are available on the Centre website. To apply, please complete the application form available on the Centre website and e-mail to Dr Toby Athersuch: [log in to unmask] The closing date for applications is 5pm, Thursday, 13th January 2011. It is expected that shortlisted candidates will be informed by Tuesday, 18th January 2011. ----- Many thanks for your time, Toby Dr Toby Athersuch Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology & Biomarkers MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health Imperial College London London You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.