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1. ISGlobal International PhD Programme in Global Health 2020 (8 PhD scholarships available!)

ISGlobal is a hub of excellence in research and medical care, and is the first global public health centre to have received the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Recognition from the Spanish State Research Agency. ISGlobal works toward the promotion of interdisciplinary science by incorporating research on poverty-related transmissible diseases as well as research on chronic diseases and their environmental and climate-related causes.

The ISGlobal PhD Programme brings together doctoral candidates from different health fields, and universities, to enjoy the added benefits of developing transdisciplinary research at our Institute.

Thanks to the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Accreditation, in this call we offer up to 8 fellowships for national and international PhD students, who wish to undertake rigorous research training and complete a research project in the field of global health and population studies to make new contributions to the existing knowledge base.

Apply now to kick-start your scientific career at ISGlobal!

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates can be of any nationality

• Candidates must have obtained a University Degree and a Master’s Degree in biomedicine, epidemiology, computer sciences, environmental sciences, biostatistics, or a related discipline within the European Higher Education System (minimum 300 ECTS, of which at least 60 are at master’s level), or an equivalent University Degree that allows to start a PhD thesis in the candidate’s home country by the expected starting date indicated in the selected proposal (please note that each candidate will be assessed for eligibility on individual basis by the corresponding PhD programme)

• Candidates must demonstrate academic excellence and a commitment to pursuing a scientific research career with an interest in global health and population studies

• Candidates must have good command of English

• Candidates already holding a PhD are not eligible

• Candidates beneficiary of a PhD Fellowship by the Spanish Government are not eligible

Please note these criteria might slightly change since they are subject to the Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2020-call from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill in the request form, including the reference PhD_SeveroOchoa_Mar20, and attach the following documents:

• Curriculum vitae (please include: Birth Date, Nationality and Current living address)

• A motivation letter (1 page MAX, A4, Arial, size 11, single space), mentioning the number of the selected research proposal and the name of the corresponding Group Leader (a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 2 proposals can be selected), and the justification for its selection

• A scanned copy of the student’s academic transcripts (degree and masters). If the academic transcripts are not in Catalan, Spanish or English, applicants should also attach a translation in one of the above-mentioned languages

• One recommendation letter from a university lecturer or scientist, with whom the applicant has studied or worked

Please note that each submitted document must include the candidate name and surname. Candidates must ensure that all required information is submitted before the application deadline of 30 April 2020. Incomplete proposals will not be considered.

Selection Process and Selection Criteria:

All applications are reviewed by an ad hoc Committee.

Candidates are selected on the basis of academic excellence and a commitment to pursuing a scientific research career with an interest in global health and population studies. A good command of English is requested.

You can find more information in the official call on our website.

Key Dates

Call opening: 30 March 2020

Call deadline: 30 April 2020

Notification to candidates: 31 May - 15 June 2020

Expected incorporation date: depending on the research proposal

Contact

For any additional information, please contact research.management@isglobal.org.

PhD Research Proposals

Please, select the research proposal/s of your interest from the “PhD Research Proposals” list provided here. A minimum of 1 and a maximum of 2 proposals can be selected.

2. CoSS PhD Scholarship – The impacts on families and children of long-term private renting.

University of Glasgow

College of Social Sciences

Glasgow

United Kingdom

Supervisor：Prof M Munro

Dr M Livingston

Application Deadline：Friday, May 08, 2020

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Project Description

Information on the School/Research Group
The successful student will join an exceptionally strong research environment. The co-supervisors are linked to two major ESRC-funded research centres CaChe (the Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence) and UBDC (Urban Big Data Centre), in each there are world-leading experts in relevant fields to which the student will have immediate access. They are located within Urban Studies, which was ranked first in the national research evaluation framework (REF) in 2014. Every student enjoys support from two supervisors, through regular meetings and discussions.
The student will join a vibrant group of around 35 PhD students, both national and international, working on a range of broad urban topics using a variety of methodological approaches. Students are encouraged to join one of the 3 research groups in Urban Studies, which provides regular opportunities to meet like-minded scholars, discuss forthcoming and contemporary work, and social activities. In addition Urban Studies runs regular workshops and seminars which students are encouraged to attend. There are funds available to organize academic and non-academic events for PhD students – recently these have included away days and writing retreats. We have a strong commitment to ensuring that the PhD experience is as collegiate and connected as the student wants.
As the PhD progresses, are be encouraged to present and discuss their work internally and externally, with an aim of building national and international networks that will support them into the next stage of their career.
Project details
The project will tackle an issue of great and growing contemporary relevance. Popular coverage has highlighted the plight of ‘generation rent’ – a group of younger people who stay longer in the private rented sector (PRS) than previous generations, trapped by restricted access to home ownership, precarious work and incomes, and dwindling social rented housing. However, the growing PRS is now a longer term home for many families with children , around a quarter of the total.
It is vital to explore how this shift impacts on families and their children: the PRS provides the worst quality housing in the UK, often poorly maintained, damp and difficult to heat, and poorly managed by landlords. Additionally, it is a chronically insecure tenure, tenants can be asked to leave at a month’s notice without giving any reason. Together this suggests that living long-term in the PRS has the potential to have adverse consequences on health, mental health and well-being, and possibly on children’s educational outcomes if they are forced to move school frequently.
This project provides an exciting opportunity to explore these issues in detail, exploiting existing large-scale cohort studies that are following representative samples of people as they age, allowing a focus on parents and their children (from a group born in 1970) and also children directly (using the Millennial cohort study of children born in 2000/1). The work has real potential to enhance understanding of the links between housing and well-being and make a real contribution to international and national academic and contemporary policy debates.

Funding Notes

Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria
• A good first degree (at least 2.1) or Master’s degree, preferably with a social science component
• A good grounding in quantitative skills and an aptitude to develop these further through taking training available
• Demonstrate an interest in some of the key issues in the project – for example, inequalities, health or life chances.

3. CoSS PhD Scholarship – Inequality and urban health risk since Victoria times: socioeconomic conditions, economic fluctuations and policy interventions

University of Glasgow

College of Social Sciences

Glasgow

United Kingdom

Supervisor：Dr K Angelopoulos
Dr R Mancy

Application Deadline：Friday, May 08, 2020

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Project Description

This studentship is based in Economics (principal supervisor Dr Konstantinos Angelopoulos) at the University of Glasgow. Economics at the University of Glasgow continues a distinguished record dating back to Adam Smith, who was a Professor at the University in the 18th century and is widely acknowledged as the father of modern economics. Today, Economics is a thriving research environment whose staff have internationally renowned expertise in many areas of economics, and a vibrant PhD student community.
The project is co-supervised by Dr Rebecca Mancy, based in the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU). SPHSU is a dynamic and interactive dedicated research environment with staff and students with background from a range of disciplines, including epidemiology, public health, medicine, economics, sociology, computing science and mathematics.
The student will join Macroeconomics Research Cluster in Economics. Economics, as part of the Adam Smith Business School, offers a range of opportunities for specialised training, including a direct link with the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics, recognised for the quality of its research training and opportunities for students to engage in research activities (e.g. specialised conferences and sessions). Moreover, the student will have access to research networking and specialised seminar series on population health via SPHSU.
The supervisors are also collaborating on a range of projects on health and income risk in conjunction with inequality, and that use quantitative UK/European municipal archive data to understand health outcomes and income inequality, back to around 1880. This includes a network of collaborators in the UK, France, Greece and the Netherlands, from which the PhD student will also benefit.
This project will examine the relationship between economic outcomes and health risk in a major urban centre since Victorian times. In particular, it will focus on how health outcomes are determined jointly with economic variables, in response to aggregate shocks (e.g. technological innovations, wars, disease outbreaks) and to major policy interventions (e.g. introduction of state health care and social insurance). Such aggregate changes and shocks affect individuals differently, and the project will seek to understand the distributional effects of such shocks and how they depend on existing socioeconomic inequality.
The medium- and long-run implications of major aggregate shocks such as wars and disease can only be partially answered using data from developed economies in recent decades because experience of such shocks is very limited. In contrast, historical periods provide multiple examples of these kinds of experience. Thus, a great deal can be learned from statistical and computational modelling analysis – of the type typically applied to modern datasets – using detailed quantitative data from historical periods. To achieve this, this project will make use of an under exploited source of information, city archives, focusing primarily on the city of Glasgow, which has excellent resources for this purpose. The studentship is in collaboration with Glasgow City Archives, who will support the student in their work.
Using relevant archive materials, the student will construct time series of a range of socioeconomic and health variables since the last quarter of the 19th century. This dataset can also be complemented by information for other cities and from survey data from recent decades. Analysis of this dataset will involve statistical methods, complemented by theoretical analysis and dynamic stochastic modelling (using mathematical and computational methods) of the individual choices that give rise to aggregate outcomes.

Funding Notes

Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria
• An MSc degree in economics, with a strong component in economic theory and statistical, mathematical and computational methods.
• Knowledge of issues relating to inequality, and interest in its relationship with health and aggregate economic conditions.
• Interest in working with archival data to compile quantitative datasets (both online and in situ in locations where archives are held and as feasible), and in reading historical documents to understand public health interventions and economic context.
• Excellent writing skills, as well as team and communication skills

4. Developing Carbohydrate Chemistry to Enhance Pharmaceutical Synthesis within the SSPC (SFI Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals)

National University of Ireland, Galway

SFI Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals

Galway

Ireland

Supervisor：Dr P Murphy

Application Deadline：Friday, April 17, 2020

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Project Description

The increasing complexity of small molecules being investigated as drugs means that synthesis used in pharmaceutical production are longer and more complex. Thus improvements in synthesis methods and routes are continuously required, which are less hazardous, environmentally friendly and sustainable. In this project, there will be a focus on improving the synthesis of carbohydrate based drugs and other candidates.
Glycomimetics, have been approved or are being investigated for their potential as anti-viral agents. There is relevance to infection caused by Influenza, Ebola, Dengue, HIV, COVID-19. Molecules of interest include iminosugars and sialosides. Where feasible, continuous flow chemistry will be incorporated into synthetic routes to such molecules. For example, Thalesnano H-cube® technology will be investigated more widely for catalytic hydrogenation reactions (e.g. see ), which are employed to remove benzyl protecting groups, or for reductive amination reactions. There is scope for applying continuous flow processes more widely in carbohydrate chemistry.
To apply
Preliminary applications can be made by email and must be sent to paul.v.murphy@nuigalway.ie and must contain ‘SSPC PhD studentship’ in the subject line.
In your application please include
1. A covering letter which gives a detailed personal statement including your motivation for applying for this particular SSPC funded PhD studentship. The successful candidate is expected to be highly motivated to work in the defined area
2. A pdf copy of an example of your own independent written research work (e.g. BSc thesis, MSc thesis, a poster).
3. A full CV including the contact details of two referees. Include the list of any awards and evidence of academic performance to date. Please detail any experience in the area of synthetic chemistry.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm by April 16th 2020.
Information on eligibility etc. are in section below; BSc or MSc completed in Chemistry is essential
• The candidate will be trained in use of continuous flow techniques and have access to various equipment needed
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including good writing skills, are essential as is the ability to work well within a team
• The successful candidate will contribute to SSPC activities and to the organisation of the laboratory.
• All PhD students at NUI Galway assist in the teaching of undergraduates
Start date: September 1st 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Funding Notes

Applicants must have BSc/MSc completed (or soon to be completed) in Chemistry is essential as is knowledge and understanding of synthesis, analysis and structure determination.
Scholarship: €18,500 per annum (tax free) with an additional contribution of €5,500 towards fees/levies etc as per SFI awards. There are also some funds available for attending relevant conferences to present results from the research work and to attend SSPC meetings.

References

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/op2001222
https://doi.org/10.1038/emi.2013.77

5. The Blockchain Era and Mass Copyright Licensing: The Future of Enforcement?

Bournemouth University

Faculty of Media & Communication

Bournemouth

United Kingdom

Supervisor：Dr D Mendis

Application Deadline：Sunday, May 17, 2020

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Project Description

Blockchain has the potential to revolutionise the transacting capabilities between individuals. One of the many benefits of blockchain is its ability to allow online (micro) payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. This element has much significance for copyright law, particularly from the point of view of licensing copyright in the dissemination of creative works.
A further benefit of blockchain is its ability to timestamp transactions thereby forming a record that cannot be changed – providing unprecedented security benefits. The ability to ‘trace’ a transaction through an authentic time stamp is a significant benefit in the digital world. Furthermore, it appears to be able to resolve the issue of intellectual property enforcement through the clear identification of ‘ownership’ and ‘authorship’. Such benefits suggest that the blockchain is more than a mere revolution and although it has also been branded as a ‘mere hype’ by some of its critics, a deeper insight into its regulation, from the perspective of intellectual property, in particular copyright, as well as enforcement is essential.
As such, this project will consider the viability of mass copyright licensing through the blockchain in a world without“middlemen” on the one hand, whilst on the other, the project will consider the security benefits it presents. For example, the ability to ‘trace’ a file to its creator / owner through the means of blockchain, seems the perfect solution. However, is it feasible and can it be achieved? Ultimately, is it possible to live in a completely decentralised world?
Whilst exploring these questions, this project aims to provide practical solutions for industry in response to the issues of mass copyright licensing and security. Furthermore, through the project’s collaboration with the match-funder, Blockchain Advisory, a premium advisory firm focused on Decentralised Ledger Technology – this project will further provide the PhD candidate with opportunities to engage with academia as well as industry, as part of the appointment. In doing so, the PhD project aims to have both academic as well as practical significance.

How to apply

Applications are made via our website using the Apply Online button below. If you have an enquiry about this project please contact us via the Email NOW button below, however your application will only be processed once you have submitted an application form as opposed to emailing your CV to us.
Candidates for a PhD Studentship should demonstrate outstanding qualities and be motivated to complete a PhD in 4 years and must demonstrate:
• Outstanding academic potential as measured normally by either a 1st class honours degree (or equivalent Grade Point Average (GPA) or a Master’s degree with distinction or equivalent
• An IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 minimum (with a minimum 6.0 in each component, or equivalent) for candidates for whom English is not their first language and this must be evidenced at point of application.

Funding Notes

Funding notes: Funded candidates will receive a maintenance grant of £15,225 per year to contribute towards living expenses during the course of your research, as well as a fee waiver for 36 months.