Dear Colleagues
The Faculty of Health & Social Sciences at Queen Margaret University
College, Edinburgh is establishing a three year rolling programme of
funded PhD bursaries in key areas of its academic strength.
For 2005/06 we are seeking to attract excellent candidates in
Physiotherapy/Podiatry/Movement Analysis and in Speech & Language
Sciences.
I would be grateful if you could bring these opportunities to the
attention of any of your colleagues or students who may wish to apply
Full details are attached to the bottom of this email or can be obtained
at
http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/res/research_opportunities.htm
Or
http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/EH349.html
I thank you for your help with this matter
Yours sincerely
Dr Phil Rowe
Dr Philip Rowe
Reader
School of Health Sciences
Queen Margaret University College
Leith Campus, Duke St.
Edinburgh, EH6 8HF, UK
tel: 0131-317-3643
fax: 0131-317-3815
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PhD Bursaries
School of Health Sciences
The Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
The Faculty is establishing a three year rolling programme of funded PhD
bursaries in key areas of its academic strength. For 2005/06 we are
seeking to attract excellent candidates in Physiotherapy/Podiatry/Movement
Analysis and in Speech & Language Sciences.
Dr Phil Rowe leads research staff in health sciences investigating
movement at the level of individual joints and limbs, movement during
speech production, movement to support functional activities, mobility in
the environment and movement as exercise for healthy living. We wish to
significantly develop this work in areas such as:
HSS.1 Efficacy of intra-articular steroid injection in improving movement
& function
HSS.2 Effectiveness of functional semi-rigid foot-orthoses on the gait of
rheumatoid arthritis patients
HSS.3 Foot pathology as a risk factor in falls for elderly people
HSS.4 Orthotic management for children with cerebral palsy
HSS.5 The role of post stroke spasticity in functional upper limb
activities
HSS.6 Activity and exercise in chronic stroke
HSS.7 Evaluation of functional electrical stimulation in Parkinsons
disease or multiple sclerosis
HSS.8 The effect on gait of anti-pronatory orthoses for the treatment of
osteoarthritis of the knee
HSS.9 Mental practice in task-orientated upper limb training post stroke
HSS.10 The influence of pain on exercise performance in people with
peripheral arterial disease
Professors Hardcastle and Gibbon have established speech science research
as one of the flagships of QMUC with the award of the Queen’s Anniversary
Prize in 2002 for work in this area acting as recognition of their many
achievements. We want to continue to lead in this area through further
significant PhD work in areas such as:
HSS.11 Stuttering and motor control
HSS.12 Disfluency, gesture and vocalisation
HSS.13 Kinematics of speech & typing errors – implications for motor
control theories
HSS.14 The phonetics & phonology of Modern Hebrew
HSS.15 Ultrasound study of tongue movements in speech
HSS.16 An articulatory survey the vowel space
HSS.17 Instrumental measurement of speech movements associated with voice
quality settings
HSS.18 Expression of emotion by deaf children
HSS.19 Cross-linguistic differences in vocal expression of emotion
HSS.20 Articulatory investigation of pre-school children’s speech motor
development
HSS.21 Acquisition of speech motor control in young children
HSS.22 Improving speech motor control in children with Down’s Syndrome
using visual training techniques
HSS.23 The effect of the Alexander Technique training on vocal performance
In addition we would particularly welcome applications which include an
inter-disciplinary approach to any of the above projects or for the three
specific studies below:
HSS.24 Sensorimotor control in Parkinson’s Disease – evidence from speech
& upper limb movements
HSS.25 Vocal & gestural communication in old age and following stroke
HSS.26 A sociophonetic study of lip & tongue using ultrasound and the
VICON motion capture system
For further information or application packs please contact the Research
Degrees Office, Corstorphine Campus, Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 8TS,
or phone 0131 317 3228, or email [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
or see our web site at
http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/res/research_opportunities.htm
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