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  PhD Studentship in Health Economics (Gynaecological Cancer in Wales)


   IMSCaR (Institute of Medical and Social Care Research)

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Prof R T Edwards  No more applications being accepted  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

About the Project

This PhD project will explore perspectives of women with gynaecological cancer and their informal carers on follow up after treatment for gynaecological cancer and use a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to elicit their preferences by exploring how they value different attributes of gynaecological cancer follow up care services.

The student will be supported by a multidisciplinary supervisory/advisory team including a health economist, an oncologist, a general practitioner, a statistician and a gynaecologist. This will provide an exciting opportunity to a student seeking a stepping stone into a career in health economics whilst yielding valuable, methodological outcomes that could facilitate and contribute to the design and the development of a future multi-centred randomised controlled trial study of gynaecological cancer follow-up services to those leading and collaborating in cancer care in Wales and the UK.

Full details available at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/imscar/postgraduates.php.en

Funding Notes

Applicants must be a UK national with a first class or upper-second-class undergraduate degree and, preferably, an MSc in economics, health economics, psychology, relevant health or social science, or have previous experience of working in a clinical or health-related research environment.

The studentship is for three years on a full-time basis from October 2013. In addition to including tuition fees and a generous annual tax free stipend, the studentship also includes funds to support the research of the award including equipment, conferences and an Open Access publication fee.