Two excellent PhD opportunities are available at King’s College London. Studentships include tuition fees, bench fees and a stipend of £15,863 per year. Students selected for the studentships will benefit from an innovative graduate skills programme. King’s College London has a global reputation for research excellence and is ranked amongst the world’s top 20 universities.

 

PhD project title: “Utilising integration of large databases to investigate the long term functional outcomes and needs of patients with haemorrhagic stroke and their differences from patients with ischaemic stroke”.

Suitable for an enthusiastic individual with background in medical statistics, public health, medicine or related areas.

It will be supervised by Dr Yanzhong Wang and Professor Charles Wolfe, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London.

Details of this studentship are shown here  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/health/study/studentships/2015/projects/HSCRWangY.pdf

 

PhD project title: ‘Development of a novel signal detection test to detect adverse drug reactions in electronic health records using time‐to‐event analysis’

Suitable for an enthusiastic individual background  in mathematics, statistics, epidemiology or a related discipline and who has an interest in Drug Safety.

Skills in programming are highly desirable as is Masters level study in medical statistics or epidemiology.

It will be supervised by Dr Victoria Cornelius and Professor Martin Gulliford, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London.

Details of this studentship are shown here  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/health/study/studentships/2015/projects/HSCRCorneliusV.pdf

 

Application process

Applications will open until 28 November 2014

For application information please see:  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/health/study/studentships/2015/2015apply.aspx

The Postgraduate Health Schools Admissions Centre will support the admissions process.