*START DATE: 1 FEBRUARY 2023*
This PhD project will use state-of-the-art approaches to explore how a person’s outdoor environment (i.e. the built and physical environment characteristics) impacts their risk of dementia. This PhD project will explore how the urban environment influences our brain health. By analysing data about where we live, such as the amount of air pollution, the toxins in soil, or how walkable the neighbourhoods are, we will explore how different environmental factors relate to brain health. The project also captures data using GPS and physical activity devices, as well as a range of multi-omic data sources to explore the biological responses to where we live.
We welcome applicants from those interested in a wide range of areas such as public health, geography, healthy ageing, urban planning, computer science, data science, epigenetics. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to co-develop their PhD research programme with members of the interdisciplinary SPACE team.
Further details about the SPACE project can be found here:https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/space/
Funding eligibility: ROI (and EU applicants with pre-settled/settled) status may be eligible for funding. Please review the DfE T&C’s.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
You must hold or expect to get an upper second class honours degree from a university in the UK or Ireland, or qualifications and experience considered by the University as equivalent to that standard. Candidates who already hold a doctoral degree, or who have registered on a PhD for one year (or part-time equivalent) or not eligible.
English Language
Candidates applying from countries where the first language is not English should produce evidence of their competence through a qualification such as IELTS or TOEFL score.
The minimum recommended score for the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science is:
· IELTS score of 6.0 with not less than 5.5 in each of the four component elements of listening, reading, speaking and writing taken within the last 2 years;
· TOEFL score of 80+ (internet basted test), taken within the last 2 years, with minimum component scores of; Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17);
· A valid Certificate of Proficiency in English grade A or B;
· A valid Certificate of Advanced English grade A; or
· A first or upper second class honours degree from a university based in the UK, Republic of Ireland or other suitably quality assured location in a country deemed by the UK Border Agency to be majority English speaking.
For a list of English Language qualifications also accepted by the School and University please see the following link:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/International/International-students/Applying/English-language-requirements/#English
INTO Queen’s English Language Courses offers both pre-sessional and in-sessional courses in English for academic purposes and study skills. Courses vary in length and full information can be obtained at: https://www.qub.ac.uk/International/International-students/Applying/University-Preparation-Courses/INTOEnglishlanguagecoursesatQueens/
When applying, please choose 'MEDICINE' as your subject area/School
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