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From: ScotPHO [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 May 2012 16:39
To: Salim Vohra
Subject: PhD scholarship - Understanding the ‘Glasgow Effect’

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PhD scholarship

Understanding the 'Glasgow Effect': a comparative exploration of local authority policy and practice in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester in the later 20th Century.

Successful candidates will receive a £11,040 stipend for three years and payment of tuition fees (current value £3400).

Closing date for applications 15th June 2012

The higher mortality in Glasgow compared to Liverpool and Manchester is deeply troubling and as yet unexplained. The cities are equally deprived and share many aspects of social history including industrialisation, extensive migration, deindustrialisation and various attempts at 'regeneration'. However, premature mortality in Glasgow is 30% higher, and mortality at all-ages 15% higher, than in Liverpool and Manchester. While Glasgow was already doing rather worse than the other two cities prior to 1980, there has been a notable widening of the gap since that date.

A number of different hypotheses have been proposed to explain this higher mortality, and it is likely that several factors have contributed. NHS Health Scotland is currently completing a phase of quantitative analysis of a variety of possible explanations, in collaboration with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health. However, if we are to better understand the lagging health outcomes in Glasgow, and ultimately in Scotland more widely, there is a need for further work to explore the social, economic and political histories of the three cities in the latter part of the 20th Century.

The School of Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland has entered into collaboration with the Public Health Observatory of NHS Health Scotland to make a contribution towards addressing this need – through co-funding and co-supervision of a PhD project. The project will focus primarily on the policy and practice of local government in each of the three cities, and on the different responses each embodied to the policy and politics of the Conservative governments after 1979 and of New Labour in the period after 1997. It will seek to explore the possible connections and pathways linking the developments in the three cities to the particular outcomes they have exhibited in terms of health and mortality.

The project will be co-supervised by Dr Chik Collins of the School of Social Sciences at UWS, and Dr Gerry McCartney, Head of the Public Health Observatory at NHS Health Scotland. Dr Duncan Sim, also of the School of Social Sciences at UWS, and himself a former employee of Glasgow District Council in the 1980s, will act as a second internal supervisor.

Details of how to apply or find out more are available at:

http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=39127&LID=1277

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