A number of fully-funded 3- or 4-year PhD studentships are available to outstanding and highly motivated graduates, with good honours or Masters degrees in relevant disciplines.  Projects in statistics, epidemiology, human genetics, bioinformatics, mathematical modelling, econometrics, economics, sociology, and psychology, applied to public health, medical and/or clinical issues are encouraged.

Research areas are broad and include: quantitative and qualitative health services research; statistical methods; genetic methods; aetiological, genetic, molecular, lifecourse, clinical, nutritional, cardiovascular, infectious disease, suicide, respiratory, neurological, endocrinological and cancer epidemiology; effectiveness, efficiency and acceptability of health services/care; public health improvement research (smoking, alcohol, sexual health, physical activity, emotional wellbeing); and children and young people's health.

Please refer to MRC, ESRC and Wellcome Trust websites for eligibility criteria and stipends. For application forms and general information, contact: Susie Potts, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol BS8 2PS (0117 928 7274). Email susie.potts@bristol.ac.uk.